Carlingford day 1

On Monday the 15th at 7 o clock in the morning we left for Carlingford. I set my alarm for 6 o clock Monday morning. It was extremely hard getting up but it was worth it when we got there. 

The bus journey there was 2 hours. When we got there we had to walk to the adventure center. We were told all the rules and where we would be sleeping. we were also told what activities we were doing. I was in group B so we had kayaking in the morning and laser tag in the afternoon.

We all dumped our bags in our rooms, we got our wet gear ready and we headed off towards the lake. we were greeted buy our instructors Dave, Teddy, Peaches and Edel. we were handed our wet suits and told to go into the changing rooms.( A bit of advice for the Tys going next year, wear your swimwear under your clothes, makes life a lot easier.) the wet suits were damp when we put them on, not the best feeling in the world i can tell you that. after we all changed into our wet suits we headed straight to the lake. To warm up we played games like Kings Queens Knights, that was great apart from the fact we played it on stones. We then set sail in our kayaks. 

kayaking looks a lot easier then it actually is... luckily i was paired with Ella who had kayaked before. We kayaked towards another beach on the other side of the lake. We got off our Kayaks and played more games on a very stony beach. We then kayaked back. I have never been so happy to take off a piece of clothing in my life.. And it wasn't easy..

We all made it back to the hostel in one piece which was bonus. We had our lunch, In my opinion the food wasn't even bad! We went back to our room and had some more food... On Sunday we spent €70 on food.. crazy I know..  We then prepared ourselves for Laser tag.

Firstly we got all geared out in our army gear, which was really fun. then we got handed our guns, they were heavier then i expected. we were ready to go up the mountain. At the start the walk was going great then it went all uphill... literally. The walk was a long 15 - 20 minutes up a steep hill, not fun:))) It was worth it. Laser tag was my favourite activity by far! I was on the blue team GOO BLUE TEAM, btw we won:))) Our team was the best, winning most of the team battles. All the running around really did wear you out. WE headed back after about 7 rounds were played. The way back was a lot more enjoyable than the way up. Martin one of our instructors told us all of his inspirational quotes like "you only miss the 100 shots you didn't take."

Dinner time couldn't of come sooner enough i was starving! I thought the dinner was great but loads of other girls didn't like it. we then headed back to our rooms to eat more rubbish. We were then called for our night time activity, "night line". we went up the mountain again to the laser tag field. Our instructor Keith was the funniest, all he did was sing 'all about the base' He was my favorite by far. We were all blindfolded, we had to hold a rope and make our way around the laser tag field blindfolded! it was great fun! 

We went back and we all got into our PJs! we then headed up to the 'disco' another school was up there and they were playing music, everyone was dancing it was a great atmosphere. We did that for a couple of hours. then we went back to the room and just chilled for a while it was great. At around  half 12 i was starting to fall asleep which i did! but then got woken up by anna throwing a pillow at eve... Then everyone thought eve was going to die... eventful to say the least.. anyway i didn't end up falling asleep until 3 in the morning, I was not a happy girl:)))