The Arthur's pass camp

            Arthur's pass camp

“Gah, no, don’t, please…” when I sit up, the room came into focus. It was the day of the almighty Arthur’s Pass camp!

I scorched my toast and spread some honey onto it of course I ate it, I didn’t mind if it was a bit burnt. When I arrived at school my friends were already there, Everyone's bags were on the floor, so I hung mine up and wandered into the classroom just as the bus turned up, it was a crazy fiasco. Everyone ran outside like a wild tornado when Mr M gave us the heads up… we chucked our bags onto the bus and climbed in, It was about a 1 hour 30 minute trip toArthur's pass.

When we got to Arthur’s Pass everyone got out and carried a couple of bags on to the front porch. We went in took our boots off and stood there, gobsmacked dumbfounded even.

The room was sooooooo big! When I was on the bus I thought it would be small and like the place we went to last time, but instead it is big and roomy, there were big long wood tables and two doors to the kitchen. So we sat down had  morning tea, then Logan, the owner of the lodge, came in to greet us.

After that we went out for orienteering, my group was Rhea, Mark, Sonny, Sahara’s Dad, Carolyn and Dayna. We were looking for white posts with words engraved in them, we came last by 5 minutes though it was still fun!

Next we came back for lunch after lunch we went to the bunk rooms and sorted our stuff out. The bunks were 3 high so of course I was going for top bunk, though Rhea got it, she climbed up and then couldn't get down luckily her mum was on camp and got her down. That meant I got the top bunk!! >;-) , So I chucked my sleeping bag up and went back to the lounge / dining room.

We the went for a hike up devil's punchbowl, and believe me there were a lot of steps we played a couple of  games then went up. When we were going up Logan stopped a couple of times to show us a dung plant and mosses. When we got to the top they split us into two groups I was in the first group and we went up to see the waterfall, the other group stayed and learnt how to play a new game, then we switched around. Kitchin group one was taken back in a van to prepare dinner, and I was in it. That night we had nachos and for dessert we had chocolate cake and fruit, I think the fruit was nicer than the cake because the cake was BURNT…

In the morning we woke to a  big thick blanket of snow. We all ran to the window in the lounge. White white and more white was all we could see - except for the trees - Some ran outside but didn’t get far, for Mr M stopped them. After breakfast we were allowed to go outside, but the boys blew it and kept throwing snowballs at people's faces then Mr M banned snowball throwing. We had a snowman building competition our team came second.

After that we went for a walk in two groups, One group stayed at the lodge and had  lunch the other went for the walk with Logan. The trees were still covered in snow we tried to throw snowballs at each other though Logan caught us, then he made up a game that you are allowed to shake the trees or throw a snowball at it to try get snow on someone. I got a few people but got a lot of snow on myself.

That night we had spaghetti bolognese and for pudding we had apple crumble though I missed out on it because Dad had to take me home, the road wasn't opened till 5.00pm from the snow. I also missed out on camp concert, the bonus was I didn’t have to pack up on Friday.

That was the end of my camp and I enjoyed it!! Thanks for reading.. Hope you enjoyed!!!!  \[~.~]/ ← smiley face