MERC again

We've just come back from a day at MERC, again (we did it back in December).

It was another excellent day.  Good learning, good fun, and a warm, blue-sky day.

Again, they were divided into groups of 12-ish children, and did three different activities.

Unfortunately, Mulan was allocated to activities in which there was nothing really new for her.  First up, she did giant stand-up paddle boarding again, although this time the waves were bigger so instead of paddling they bounced around in the surf.  Secondly, Mulan repeated archery.  And thirdly she did kayaking (though again without paddles and instead playing in the surf).

Miya was a bit luckier, and did a couple of new activities.  First, she did sailing.  They learnt a bit about water safety and how sailing works, before helping to put up the sails and heading out to sea.  The sail boats they were in held six children and one adult, and Miya says that she had a turn at controlling the boat.  Secondly, she did raft building.  Last time, Mulan's raft building was with plastic barrels that had to be tied together.  Miya's was a bit easier as she had to tie together kayaks.  Thirdly, Miya repeated abseiling.

I'm thinking we will probably not bother re-doing MERC in the near future, until the girls grow a bit more and they are placed into different activities.