We rented the Waiora Scout Camp (which I later found out was the location of the Winter Solstice party last June and I did not recognize the place at all!) and planned all kinds of things for the weekend. My main activity was organization of the food menu. So I had a chance to get my favorite really spicy chili on the menu. These guys were on the cooking team the first night and made a huge pot of it:
Most people seemed to like it (even though Kiwis are said to be very afraid of spices) - we only got 1 complaint. And it was really spicy - even for my taste.As a little side note, we did the shopping on Friday morning at this Wal-Mart like place called Pak'n Save (or Pak'n Slave as the employees call it) where they treated us like 4-year-old children. We had 5 of these huge shopping carts full of stuff and started putting things into boxes as they came off the conveyor belt at the check out. Out of nowhere this feisty little lady showed up and told us we couldn't do that until after we had paid up. As she walked away we all looked at each other and couldn't really comprehend what she had just said. Was she finally going to send somebody over to help us getting the huge amounts of food off the belt? Well no - she didn't. So we kept doing what we had been doing assuming she must not really have meant what she said. But she did! So she came back to tell us that "we had been told to not pack stuff into boxes." And stormed off again. It felt like being in a psycho movie - nothing makes sense but all the characters pretend that everything is alright. In the end we did get all the stuff out into the parking lot and to our amazement managed to pack everything into 2 cars (one of them was an Audi I have to admit - 2 of my cars wouldn't have worked).
After dinner on Friday we did a pub quiz and I was able to play quiz master for an evening!
People hard at work solving quiz questions:
Saturday started off with some workshops but then the afternoon was spent frolicking in the sun!
Lunch outside on the lawn!
No telling what Tim is up to in this picture...
We had a Lego competition on Saturday evening where the teams had to put together a set of Lego pieces without getting instructions on how to do it. It was absolutely amazing - I haven't laughed this hard in a long time! I can't go into details here as this is the internets and children might come and read. But I'll post a picture - it is just what it looks like ;)
And we had a big bonfire on Saturday night ..
...where I finally came to understand how that all really works with Schrödinger's Cat and the global significance of Facebook. And the question came up if there really is a difference between Sweden and Switzerland (which Cajsa insisted there was but she had to say that since she is from Sweden!) and after "The Lion sleeps tonight" we agreed that neither Sweden nor Switzerland matter much in the overall scheme of things - Hollywood rules!Sunday started off slow since we didn't get to bed until 3am the night before. We had a guy come out and instruct people in Abseiling (which nobody can pronounce correctly - damn German words):
And before we left the camp in the afternoon - a group photo!
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