School Holiday Chaos

 Well, school holiday break has come and gone - and it's almost quieter back at school!  Almost!

The first week was our Region Guide camp, hosted here in Tennant Creek - with girls from Alice Springs, Tennant Creek, Darwin and Palmerston.  We ended up with 37 girls and 13 Leaders attending.  

And it POURED with rain, with ICY winds for most of the camp!  Tents leaking, tents down, 40km winds while canoeing... and apparently the kids loved every bit of it.  As the LIC - I was done by mid-week, but we battled it out.  Then on the last day, we had a girl test positive to Covid!  

By the end of the camp - we had managed to complete almost everything on our program - from canoeing and horses to drones and mountain biking along with UV Resin Jewelry, Mandala Rock painting, Jellyfish weaving, Constellation Cubes, Campfire (fake fire though as all the wood was wet), Guides Own, Amazing Race Style Wide Game and an Underground Mine Tour.  The only thing we didn't pull off was Solar Printing - you actually need sun for that. 

Juno was an AMAZING place to camp - and they catered for us as well.  The food was incredible - definitely not what you would expect on a Guide camp. I really can't recommend the place highly enough. 

Second week of holidays, I, along with most of the Leaders tested positive to Covid - so a week spent at home not allowed out.  Which made for a few problems trying to get the gates organised for the Show - thank heavens for some supportive people who just made it work. The dog was really quite pleased with this turn of events, though.  

Third week of holidays - quick trip to Alice for a 2 day intensive Leader training Course, from 8am to 8pm both days. And it was -3 both nights!  The car was covered in a sheet of ice the first night.  Headed home on the Tuesday - after collecting Wayne from Alice Springs Hospital where he had been for 3 weeks. 

That left a few days to get everything done at home - and back to work on Monday for a full day PD Training which ran from 8am to 4.30pm.  Pretty much need a holiday to recover! 

Any crafting that got done was at the Camp, and didn't include much paper anything!