So Much to Choose From

There is so many to choose from, so many interesting activities. How do choose just 8 or 4 of them? How do you only pick one out trip without wanting to do them all? The time has passed and we have all picked our sessions and theme day selections. Many of us had difficulty doing this because there was so many to choose from the activity catalogue out of the 6 categories and out trips. The categories were divided into these categories: Active Living, Adventure, Arts and Crafts, Community Connections, Science and Technology, Waterfront and Out Trips! How Exciting!!

Active Living gets you moving all of your body with fabulous fun games that will make you want to play all day with a bunch of friends. Love soccer and baseball? Try California Kickball that combines both soccer and bases or a simple game of soccer. Go back 100 years and try games that girls used to play to have fun years ago such as bocce ball, and kick the can. Want to learn a precision sport and get better at aim? Try Archery or try the Fencing which was in modern day Olympics. Yoga, Pilates, a running clinic could help find a sport or activity that maybe you would then now love and want to do at home. Jump in the air with a bunch of friends and learn how to do flips and enjoy the feeling about being in the air by trying trampoline. Enjoy the nature citing that we could see on the Guelph Lake trails in trail walking. There is much more. Unfornately we can only pick one of these from this category. There will be other times to do it, or maybe we will have a chance to do it again someday.

If you’re daring and love to have wonderful adventures this category is for you. Adventure gets you excited to try new things that you have most likely think are exotic to be doing at camp. Like heights? Try Rock Climbing or Rappelling. Where Rock Climbing you climb to the top of the rock wall, or Rappelling where you go down the rock wall. Fly through the air on a zip line in a high flying adventure or take a walk through a cave and explore the creatures that live in the cave. Scared of heights? Have no fear there is something for you. Grab a helmet and hit the skateboarding course, or mountain biking, you could even try Low Ropes! Climb through the trees on a thrill seeking adventure in High Ropes. Everyone has seen the show how about participate in GM amazing race? That would be fun! Learn the basics while you make friends with a horse and go trail riding non- experienced or experienced doesn’t matter. Which one will you choose out of this interesting section of program?

If you’re creative, you love art and drama you will for sure LOVE this section. With plenty to do in the arts and crafts section it is hard to pick what one you want to do. A Drawstring Backpack would be helpful to have a Mosaic and I do think every one needs at least one. So how about you make a bandana/drawstring backpack? Make grandma proud by testing your skills on rug hooking and knotted bags. Make her and your parents even more proud by showing them you know how to use a mop in a different way by making a Mop Doll. It’s probably not what you’re thinking. There is no cleaning up in the section of the craft. However, you are going to create a new friend out of a mop! Sleep well by making a dream catcher and make all those bad dreams go away or how about a pillow case? Want to show off your drama skills or singing skills? Improv’ Games, celebrating guiding oldest traditions with singing and square dancing are just to name a few. There are lots more that we could have selected!

Show your true colors to the Guelph community that you care. You have a chance to volunteer at the Guelph Food Bank and distribute food to others. Do you like to garden? You’ll love the Garden Fresh Box Program and the Elizabeth’s Place Women’s Shelter. Try you’re knitting and crocheting skills by make a knotted quilt or making a bed mat out of milk bags. Help out at the Salvation Army stores in Guelph or make blankets for the homeless. If you really like it outside and think you’ll love the site were staying at. You can paint picnic tables, plant a garden, or work with a Horticulture Aid and help deliver programs to seniors. Every bit of our participation throughout the community is one big help and is greatly appreciated. So let’s go out and celebrate with helping out in the community.

Get your hands on to stuff that you would never thought you would do before. Science and Technology offers some very cool sessions that you will love. Dive into your creativity and try Digital Scrapbooking and bring home a wonderful book of Guiding Mosaic memories. Let you composer shine right above you and try and record Digital Music. Be Dazzled by Color and take off the colors on Skittles and Smarties to find out what the actual color is. Learn about the science of make-up and cosmetics. While you’re at it create some of your own. Get your hand on some cool experiments and partake in CSI Guelph or investigate, spy and gather information with common equipment in Hi-Tech Spy. Are you an animal lover? Tour one of Ontario’s World Famous Vet Colleges in Guelph by joining I Want to be a Vet! Learn how to protect our Pale Blue Dot and discover the pros and cons about wind turbines. Find out how much energy it takes on a treadmill to make battery power. All of these are interesting activities that everyone would love to do!

Splash in the pool or in the lake and go for a dip. Its always well appreciated especially when it’s hot and you need to cool you off. Try out your your camping skills and combine them with your canoeing skills. Test out your upper body strength and use a double bladed paddle with kayaking. Spend time with your friends in a boat using your canoe skills and go canoeing or compete against other girls and play canoe games. Discover underwater life while wearing snorkelling gear and try snorkelling or learn how to scuba dive. Take the plunge and improve your diving skills and go diving. Combine your love for the arts and do them in the pool and do synchronized swimming. Just want to relax with friends and enjoy your day? Swimming and water games are also available. All of these wonderful activities will help us cool off after and during a hot sunny day.

Not only do we get to experience 10 days in Guelph Ontario, we also get to attend another Ontario City of our choice. See the beauty of Niagara Falls on the Niagara Falls Adventure tour. Go on an adventure tour and then to Wasaga beach after you zipline through the trees and walk a suspension bridge, or tour the scenic caves before a leisurely swim in the beach. Travel to the top of the CN Tower and discover the amazing city of Toronto and then the historical palace that holds Girl Guide Information at Casa Loma. Travel back into two eras. Visit Casa Loma and then step farther back where Medieval Times comes to life. Spend a day at the Toronto Zoo and meet 5000 different kinds of animals. Attend the Stratford Festival with a backstage workshop before a world class production. Did you hear that animals from Africa have travelled to Canada? Meet them at the African Lion Safari. Explore the great Canadian city and find clues of many famous Canadian Sites. Do the Great Toronto Scavenger Hunt. Go to Toronto's "House on the Hill" (Casa Loma) that will take you back decades. Mini Golf, Go-Carting, Rock Climbing and swimming pheww what a day! At Bingemans Park- Big Splash Waterpark. Get your hands on some fasinating experiments at the Ontario Science Center while IMAX brings science to life for you. All of these out trips sounds amazing and will give us many memories in one day to bring home.

So that is that! All the activities are so great. Its hard just to pick 4-8 of them. We will have other activities and experiences that we can look forward to as well. Shows, Performances, and much more. See you in 23 days. :)