After the Space Centre, we went back to the hut and had a sleepover. We came in and had a snack (juice and biscuits) and then…I can’t remember…we probably played a few games or something, though. Then we had our dinner – cucumber, star-shaped pasta, a lovely bongunaise sauce and cheese. Some of the Beavers just had cheese and cucumber, or pasta and cheese, but I had all of the options and had two courses!
Then two boys from Scouts set up a telescope and we learned – actually, we didn’t even look through the telescope! All we saw was through the end of it and all we saw through loads of magnifing things, and that was it. Just,
“There are mini magnifying glasses all the way through. See? Interested? Right, next group, please! Come on! Look – magnifying -” and that was all we saw.
After that and while groups were having their turns we sang some songs. I suggested this one,
“Everywhere we go,” (repeat and so on), “people always ask us” etc.
At some point we went to the park and went on the swings (there was only one, actually, since one of them was only hanging by one chain and was padlocked to the side) and played. That was at AROUND six. We also played some planet games. One was this:
You need about 28 or 56 people/grown-ups/children. There are meant to be two wondering-around planets, then there’s meant to be a: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and a Neptune (that’s the order of our planets from the sun in our solar system). There’s also meant to be two Suns (this is all if you’ve got 28 people) which just stand – they don’t have a really main part. Then the planets I just mentioned are meant to run slowly around the two suns (the suns have different places) and when a whistle’s blown you stop. After the whistle sound, the person who whistled through the whistle may call out a planet. Those planets swap places, and find a space, but unfortunately, the wondering-around planets are trying to get the space too!
We finally got to bed at quarter to ten at night, and there were loads of children being all noisy and not doing as they were told and switching their torches on when they weren’t allowed to and the teachers weren’t looking – but all of that passed on and I soon got to sleep, for about twenty minutes. Then I woke up – it was about half past 5am – and I felt a tickle on my nose. I woke myself up properly and told Amanda (there are two Amandas, but this one was the red-haired one) and she said, “Yes, you’re having a by-the-looks-of-it-extremely-large nosebleed. Nicky, who runs the Tuesday Cubs, came to help. It was very big, and blood was coming into my throat, and so I was spitting out blood. This made me unfortunately EXTREMELY SCARED. Luckily, Nicky was a very nice lady and she helped me to calm down, and I got to stay up at six o’clock in the morning drinking tea. 😛
I thought that it was a very good sleepover, and you know what? I’m going to Cubs after half term! That means I get five-night sleepovers! (I might miss my mummy by that time, but oh well).