Hello Everyone !
Our Christmas meeting ( about a month ago) was probably one of the most relaxed meetings we've had so far. It mainly consisted of making and eating food , which you can probably tell from the pictures below . . .
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| Kicking it all off with a tree |
It wouldn't be Christmas without mince pies, which is what we spent a lot of Saturday preparing.
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| Jenny showing us how its done |
We also made and constructed a huge danish pastry tower called a Kransekake, some better than others.
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| The basis of our kransekake . . . |
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| . . . and the finished masterpeice |
Chef Stuart also set each patrol the challenge of making a gingerbread house.
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| Our earthquake hit house |
After hours of work, we finally sat down to a three course Japanese English hybrid Christmas dinner. Some courses were interesting to say the least, but it was generally pretty enjoyable.
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| Christmas Jumpers galore |
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| Sushi for starters |
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| We all managed to eat a whole Christmas dinner with chopsticks |
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| Pudding was of mixed opinions |
Father Christmas visited us to hand out our secret santas, everyone was pretty impressed with their presents, apart from me. I never got one.
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| Julia was pretty convincing as the big man himself |
We finished off the evening with the 'rubbish present game' and some other entertaining bunk house games, all of which Charlie the dog got involved with.
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| A pretty impressive pile of gifts |
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| The aim was to pop everyone else's balloons whilst keeping your own in tact |
Sunday was mainly tidying up and eating the gingerbread houses, we also got given an update on the Jamboree. Now we know when we're heading off and where we are going for HoHo, the Gifu prefecture in central Japan.
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| Our gingerbread village |
Its safe to say the training weekend was a great way to start the Christmas holidays, and once again we can't wait for the next time we all see each other again!
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| A very late Merry Christmas from unit 8 ! |
Thanks for reading !
