Laurence is back from Birch Bay, and when we went to get him last night, we got to see a display of what he has been doing all week on his 'get a grip' camp!!! Here he is (in the middle) at the top of his 'Ascending' climb!! He went first! He had to use both arms to ascend the rope by co-ordinating his arm muscles and pulling himself up the rope, tightening the two pullies as he went!! It looked hard work - especially at 31c temperatures!!! He soon made it to the top of where he had to go though!
Behind him were two climbers...to the right of us were two people who were twin descending or something or other from the zipline and to the left of us people were ziplining - although Laurie may be able to correct me on the correct terms to use - it was amazing to see everything and I have a TON of pictures to add - although Laurence didn't want ANY taken so I apologize now that there aren't many good ones as I had to be sneaky about taking them ;)
I think Laurence had an amazing time - made a LOT of great friends and is VERY sad to be home again. when we got to his cabin he wasn't there - we grabbed his bags and spoke to some of the boys there who all announced that they loved Laurence!! :) So my fears that he wouldn't have a great week were washed away instantly!!! :)
Next year he wants to go again AND he also wants to stay for an extra week as a volunteer!! Cool!!! :)
