Go Ape!

 Last Friday we had our first ever IT meeting the day before we had some team building at GO Ape!  Was a bit weary of this all sounded a bit naff climbing about in trees.  The kind of team building that intrestets me is sitting in a pub getting mangled.

On arrival at go ape there was some refreshments (nothing alcoholic) followed by a 30 minute safety briefing.

They have 3 course, each course gets higher and higher into the trees.  At the end of each course there is a zip line taking you back to the ground.  Some of the courses have a black trail, these trails lead you away from the easy obstacles and onto something a lot harder.  I was done in when I completed the black obstacles and still have the blisters on my hands from it.

On the final course they had a zip line with a target, you got a bean bag ball and had too get as close to the target as possible.  Prizes to be given out later.  All sounded a bit gay so decided to go down this backwards and through my ball over my head.  Turned the zip line around and I seen my ball coming back down making an attempt to kick the ball.

 After this there was a BBQ and some beers followed by prizes.  Top prize turned out to be a tom tom sat nav, 2nd prize was a 5mb digital camera.....only if I knew that....

Everyone was getting prizes, name still not called out.  Down to the last two now, from the prizes that the guys above me got I was surprised, they were walking away with pens and pencil sharpeners.  We managed to bag some Toshiba T shirts and some baseball caps.

All in turned out to be a fun day.  Check out Go ape here