YSA Conference day 2 afternoon : Sneaky, sneaky, naughty, naughty!

After a quick(ish change) and stuffing lunch down, I left my room again to head out to the next blue activity. Of course it was at the other end of the site (again) so back to the armitage centre. I found engineseer in the main hall along with the P sisters and their friends. We were treated to a importune dance display from one YSA, teaching some girls dance moves from Usher. I actually got some video of it. I'm having trouble posting it but I'll work on it.

Anyway we waited for the next workshop and it finally started 20 minutes late, just as some people were starting to give up and leave. The workshop? Well as it was the blue 'physical workshop' timeslot, it was the 'food Olympics Come on, you really think I was going to pass up a workshop with a name like that. Well we got organised into teams and got started. The first event was passing oranges 'down the team', sounds easy right? Wrong! you had to pass it under you chin from person to person without using your hands. Which meant as our team had a high number of guys we were getting far closer to each other then we wanted to.

Second game was fluffy bunny. It was basically one member from each team putting a marshmallow in their mouth then saying fluffy bunny. Then they had to put a second one in their mouth without chewing or swallowing that or the first one. Then a third one and so on. Our team one again. the guy who I was giving the marshmallows to managed to stuff fifteen into his mouth!

After that they announced the next game would be pass the polo. Cue a lot of nervous giggles and worried glances between people. The organizer then produced straws and explained you had to pass them using the straws sticking out from your mouth. This lead to a round of very unconvincing attempts from the YSA to convince all of the other YSA that was the only version of the game we were aware of.

There were three more games following this one. One where people had to throw 'flying saucers' to the other members of their team who had to try and catch them in their mouths. The second was a relay with team members eating two crackers as fast as possible!

in the last game involved four team members trying to build a 'tower of flour' and eating a chocolate off the top. One unfortunate girl from our team got the chocolate along with a mouthful of flour! Much coughing and spitting ensured. One YSA decided to offer her a bottle of water apparently unaware of what might happen if she drank water with a mouthful of flour. At least I hope he was unaware of what might happen! BTW this is my team and we won!

The last workshop of the afternoon for the blue was " Social", I had wanted to go to fifty first dates but the sheet had been ridiculously over subscribed. So I was heading in the direction of the photography session when I ran into Fraggle. Who it seemed by the way was getting hugged by some girl every other time I turned round. He seemed to know so many people it might be quicker to list who didn't know him! Anyway the first thing I noticed was the whopping red line halfway across his forehead. It seems during his physical workshop he had decided to go and down Ultimate Frisbee and had had a accident caused by a Frisbee ( happy with that description fraggle?).

Anyway we were going in the same direction and looked into the 50 first dates room. There seemed to be a lot of girls and not many guys. Well we were unable to resist the temptation of that many single ladies in one room so we snuck in ( shush, don't tell anyone, lets just keep it between you, me, Fraggle and the rest of the internet!) It was a really fun session and at the end you had to write down who your favourite date was and your phone number and put it in a box. If the other person put you down as well then the organizers would send you the other persons number. Well I haven't received anything so I guess I didn't make that big an impression on her. but oh well at least I gave it a try :-)