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Dural Pony Club held their first Pony Club Camp in many years on the
19th-20th May. It was a fun 2 days with both mounted and unmounted
activities.
We
had 3 different teams, Pink, Yellow and Green which competed against
each other in the various mounted games activities planned. Everybody
cheered their team mates on and everybody had a go at every activity.
The musical cone game remains the favourite with every one giggling and
laughing while desperately wanting to reach a cone!
We
had a night-ride courtesy of the floodlights and the bonfire kept both
the kids and ponies warm for dinner and the parents warm for a late
night. Lovely ribbon browbands were made by the kids with interesting
colour combinations! After that kids were lucky to watch some great new
movies on the big projector screen in the upstairs cinema with hot
chocolate and baby marshmallows! They slowly dozed off.
The morning didn't start as promptly as had been anticipated. But still
everyone launched into the team spirit that had been shown the previous
day. After more mounted games everone unsaddled and packed up for
a short presentation. 1st, 2nd and 3rd ribbons were given out to the
teams along with a lolly bag and a goody bag put together by Pat at
Villagecourt Saddlery and Mitavite. Charmaine also picked up some
vouchers from Dural Stockfeeds for one bag of Mitavite Xtra Cool given
to the team leaders who helped in the organisation of the camp. The
gifts were wonde rful and greatly appreciated!
We
finished the Camp with the jelly bean game. Soon it lost its meaning,
being to find the jelly bean in the icing sugar to just covering each
other in the stuff! That was a truly fun end to a fantastic camp.
On
behalf of everyone I would like to thank everyone for coming including
the parents for encouraging everyone to participate, the team leaders
for helping their team improve and get organised, all the sponsors
including Villagecourt Saddlery, Mitavite, Dural Stockfeeds, MacDonald's
Dural, Subway Dural, Horseland Dural, Spotlight,
and many more, but most importantly Charmaine for making the whole
weekend a great experience and organising all the goodies which was a
wonderful surprise at the end! I am sure everyone who attended is hoping
to make this an annual event and anyone who didn't attend I'm sure is
keen to join in next year.
Natasha S. |
