Cedar Glen camp from a youngsters view part 4

July, 4th 2013

Today we had lots of fun. Let me summarize my adventures in Cedar Glen camp that I had on the cloudy day of thursday on July, 4th 2013.

Animal survival!!

   Animal survival is a new activity that I have not talked about yet. So, let me explain the rules:

• There are 5 things that you can be, a herbivore (plant eater), a omnivore (a herbivore and plant eater),  a carnivore (Meat eater), disease ( kills everything) and a natural disaster (kills everything)
• In the forest there are food and water stations at which herbivores and omnivores can stop at to collect a food/water stamp.
• You can not eat the animals at those stations.
• In a habitat there are the most amount of herbivores so each herbivore has 8 lives.
• In a habitat there are many omnivores so they had six lives and gained a life when they ate a herbivore.
• In a habitat there are few carnivores so they had three lives but gained lives when they feasted.
• In a habitat there are hardly any humans, diseases and natural disasters so there were only one of each .
•   You had a keychain with poker chips on it. 1 chip = 1 life. When someone ate you you give up a poker chip.
• When you eat someone you must give them a 10 second headstart.

So I turned out to be an omnivore and was released into the forest. Then I ate 6  herbivores and got eaten by a carnivore and killed by a disease. It was really fun running around in the tall grass and trees while trying to avoid predators.

Archery

   At archery our group just relaxed and told religious stories like Ganesha and scary stories with creepy consequences.  After that we were all pumped up and headed for the Giants ladder.

Giants ladder

  In this activity you had to climb a giant ladder. So, the ladder was 8 beams tall and as high as a house and a half. The objective was to climb the giant's ladder as high as possible while it was swaying and all you had was a harness to protect you. The steps were wooden logs with cable at the edges to bind it together. The gaps between the ladders kept getting bigger as you climbed higher. This is like the order:

1. 0.5 meters
2. 0.75 meters 
3. 1 meter
4. 1 meter and a quarter
5. 1 meter and a third 
6. 1 meter and a half
7. 1 meter and three quarters
8. 2 meters

I climbed to the sixth one before coming down and was like in the top 7 people that made it to that height or higher. It was really  fun because you felt the beams swaying and feel like you are going to fall because you can hardly reach the next bar with your hands and have to act like a monkey in order to complete the thing. Only one person went to the top and only one person couldn't go higher than the the first beam.

  After that we ate lunch and headed over to swimming.

Swimming

    At swimming we didn't have any more swim tests or anything. Just an hour of fun at the pool.We cooled down and put on more bugspray and sunblock later.

Live young

Have fun 

Sleep happy