Crazy Catch-up 3/4

This blog is a mish mash of a few things; hence the reason for splitting these posts, as if I tried to put the content of all 4 into 1, it would be a disastrous mess! This one is also going to be told mainly in photographs a) because I have them and b) because a picture's worth 1000 words but takes a lot less time to blog! :P

Firstly, I'd like to share a long-awaited photo of Geoffrey and his new friend William. This is the two of them in one of the Sangam tents:

We've had a lot of campers recently. In between two camps, we decided to finally take advantage of the presence of the tents, and have a sleepover. It was really good fun. 6 SVs, 3 Interns, 2 VITs, plus a visit from APM and DWCM (the latter told us the story of the Sangam ghost and scared some of us witless - but Geoffrey wasn't scared). We took a trip to the sweet shop in our pjs and stocked up on sweets, biscuits and chocolate, Christa gave us some trashy magazines and we just spent some time laughing and joking. I should also point out that the tents are HUGE - even with all of us in there, there was plenty of room to roll around. It was a really nice night, and good to do it in Net and Ellen's last week as they'd not done a campout during their time at Sangam.

We all went out for dinner on Net and Ellen's last night. We had a lovely meal at a restaurant called Malaka Spice which is a bit pricier than other places we go, but worth it as the food was excellent. After we'd eaten and the leavers had made a silly speech, they went to see Jen, and the rest of us decided to go and investigate 'A Chocolate Affair'; a coffee shop we'd heard amazing things about. And it lived up to expectations. I had a dark hot chocolate and it was wonderful. Here are some photos of the others looking very pleased with their selections:

Bronwyn with an 'Amazing Brownie'

Em with a Peanut Milkshake

Jessica with a White Hot Chocolate and 'Amazing Brownie'

Steph, also with 'Amazing Brownie'.

The night after this was Crappy Christmas. Jen and Christa decided to host a party, make it 80s themed, invite loads of people, and include crappy gifts! So we all dressed up in our glad rags:

And brought with us a crappy gift that we'd been given by someone else. Once the party was in full swing, we all selected a numbered ticket. This number dictated the order. Person 1 selected any gift on the table, unwrapped it and showed everyone. Person 2 could either steal that gift or unwrap another. If your gift was stolen, you had to unwrap a new one, etc. It was really good fun. Here are some more photos, this time of people with their crappy gifts!:

Em with a jar. This jar is now mine. I 'stole' it from her as I thought it was pretty. Currently it is home to anything belonging to Jessica that gets left in my room like socks, earrings etc!

Emily being much amused by the little bird in a basket that she's seen Jessica wrap up earlier...

Jessica looking pleased because she actually liked her gift!

Steph looking not so pleased with her beautiful pink fan

And Bron looking unsure about what might be in her parcel!

All of the above events were super-fun, if occasionally tainted by Net and Ellen's departures. I will mention this a little bit more in the next (and hopefully final for now) blog post.

TTFN