Galloway Activity Centre

On Wednesday the 2nd of May, primary 5-7 went to Galloway Activity Centre at Lock Ken. Everyone was really excited and couldn’t wait to get there. When we arrived we hauled our luggage to our rooms and had a look around our rooms. Paul slept in the room with Hayden, Gavin and Euan. Ebony and Kaylan slept in a room with Georgia, Merissa and Mrs Queen.

Laser quest was the first activity we did. It was awesome!!! We had really good teams and it was awesome!

After Laser tag we did the slip and slide and we were introduced to wet suits. They were a nightmare to get on! Here is what some people thought of wetsuits:

Paul- When they are soaking wet they are so hard to get on but when they are dry they are easy to get on. I don’t think they keep you warm at all!

Ebony- They are really hard to get into and when they are dry they are quite easy to get on and the waterproof jumper/coats were easy to get on but hard to take of.

Kaylan- They are really hard to get on! They are really easy to get of though. On the first day they kept you warm but on the second day they didn’t.

Georgia- They were horrible and sticky.

Kye-They are tight and annoying to put on.

Dylan-They were ok to get on.

Greg-They were really horrible.

Dakota- They were so hard to get on and I didn’t like them.

Merissa- they were wet and hard to get on.

Miss Stapleton-I didn’t really mind them.

The slip and slide was very very fun! One side was faster and the other was slower. There was a lot of rocks under the slide and they hurt sometimes. But otherwise it was really fun! The next day we did water sports in the morning. Paul was with Euan, Kaylan was with Georgia and Ebony was with Miss Stapleton. You needed to put on a wetsuit to go paddle boarding and then you waded into the loch and got on the board. After paddling sitting down for a while we were allowed to try standing up. It was not that hard but it was a little hard. Then we went on the giant paddle board with Liam (our instructor) and he was singing pirates of the Caribbean. Then Sonny fell in and everyone started jumping in. Then it was sailing and Paul was with Ryan and Sonny, Kaylan was with Euan and Georgia and Ebony was with Mrs Queen and Lewis. Kaylans boat kept nearly tipping! We also did the climbing wall and archery. Paul, Sonny and Hayden all made it to the top of the climbing wall and did the zip line down.  others abseiled. Archery was really good to. On the 3rd day we did the swing again. It was 9 metres high and you have to pull the rope to swing down at the top. The only way we can describe it is being like on a rollercoaster and when you drooped you left all your organs at the top of the swing. Kaylan said it was her favourite activity and she said it was awesome. The bubble football turned into bubble war and people were rolling everywhere in their ball. We got filthy. We also did laser tag again and it was just as fun as the first time.

By Paul, Ebony and Kaylan