Thursday was our first theme day – Pirates! The camp woke up to see the squirrels had been at it again and the whole place was covered in banners! Everyone had to dress up in Pirate costume and our first activity was rafting! As we walked from the camp site to the pool we managed to terrorise a few locals and I think the instructors were a bit surprised to see us dressed up!

When we got to the pool we split up into two teams and the race was on to build the best raft. The only problem we had was who would have Tanny on their team! Within a short time the engineering experience of Pete showed through and his team had finished well before Drew’s, but they sent Tanny over to distract us but he ended up getting kidnapped! Unfortunately his team didn’t want him back so Pete’s team was forced to release him for their own sanity.

When the rafts were complete they were launched in the pool but Drew’s team immediately came unstuck as Laura tipped straight in! At last the two teams were ready and the race was on for the ducks – unfortunately Drew’s raft started to come apart and Lawrence and Tanny ended up pushing and pulling the raft along whilst Pete’s team paddled for the duck and were eventual winners. We then decided to see how many we could get on Pete’s raft, since the Danes were bragging about having got nine on theirs. We did get eleven on, including Steve and Drew but their weight proved way too much and the raft started coming apart!