5th Rainham Brownies
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5th Rainham Brownies
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Time Travelling Detective Agency Pack Holiday (2007) This year we had a joint Pack
Holiday with 4th Cambridge Brownies
at Pax Wood Hall. We voted for 'Time Traveling Detectives' as our
theme. Our sixes were Agents, Spies, Detectives and Investigators.
The adults were Dr Who, Inspector Morse, Cadfael and Sherlock Holmes.
We also had Pack Leaders called Rose and Martha.
   After unpacking we went to Spy School. We learnt how to take and identify different finger prints, use a pig pen code and a code wheel, hunt for clues using a magnifying glass and binoculars and write messages in invisable ink.     We then had a dinner of pizza, french bread and salad. After dinner we went to the Adventure Playground.    We then drew outlines on bags, used modrock to make TARDIS pencil pots, made tortillas for tomorrows lunch and individual triffle for the evening. We then had hot chocolate and went to bed. Eventually we went to sleep!   On Saturday we began the day with a breakfast of cereal, boiled egg and soldiers and toast. We then took a train to Eynford and walked through the village to the Scout Hut. At the Scout Hut we ate out lunch of tortillas, crisps, biscuits and fruit. We then solved a code in order to make a potion that would help us blend in when we travelled to Norman times.    We then walked to Eynsford
Castle
where we journeyed back to Norman times to solve a murder mystery. When
the murder was solved we walked back to the station, stopping to get a
soft ice cream from an ice cream van. Unfortunately the man at the
local village shop (who did not sell soft ice creams and had a sign up
saying only one child was allowed in his shop at a time) felt that we
should have bought our ice creams from him and yelled across the street
that he hoped we all choke on them. Not a very nice man! Still,
everyone else in Eynsford was lovely. When we got back to Pax Wood we
enjoyed a dinner of chips and chick sticks with triffle for afters. We
then had showers, hot chocolate and went to bed.
       For lunch we had roast turkey, potatoes, carrots, peas, broccoli, sweet corn, sausage, stuffing and gravy. For afters we had vanilla or mint vienetta. In the afternoon we went on a series of missions. In Tudor England we used Quill pens and gold paint to make illustrated manuscripts, in Victorian Kent we worked as maids sewing, polishing and cleaning and in War-torn London we sang patriotic songs.    In Ancient Egypt we painted tomb paintings, in the early 1960s we went to a rock and roll dance and in Ancient Greece we acted as bards telling the tale of Pandora's box. During each mission we had to make people believe that we were from their time and find and decode a hidden message.      In the evening we enjoyed a
buffet
tea followed by fruit and a chocolate fountain. We then painted another
coat on our TARDIS pencil pots, showered and went to bed.
  On Monday morning we ate cereal, toast, scrambled egg and bacon and sausage for breakfast. We then packed our bags, visited the campsite shop and finished off our TARDIS pencil pots, bags and sniffer dogs. At lunchtime we had a BBQ.   After lunch we played a sniffer dog game. Each six were given an envelop with a strong smell inside it. We then had to hunt around the grounds for ten other envelopes with the same smell. After this we played in the Adventure Playground one last time, ate ice cream and had our closing ceremony. The Spies were given award certificates for their performances in the wide games and individual certificates and badges were handed out.  |
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