D of E... ouch.

My legs hurt from walking for about 10 hours on the weekend for a practice D of E hike. But it feels good in the kinda 'yay now I have stronger leg muscles' sort of way. We got a little bit lost on the first day going to the campsite, but we managed to right ourselves. For dinner I had some noodle thing, and one member of our group had never lit a match before so she had fun lighting about 10 matches and putting them out in different ways.

Our tent was NOT a three man tent. It was more like a one man tent. My face was squished up against the side, and it's a good thing I don't get claustrophobic. I woke up at 5 because of the birds but managed to get to sleep again. I woke up with the side of the tent in my face, dripping wet because it had been raining.

For breakfast we forgot oil so we cooked sausages but they got stuck to the pan so easily and there were loads of burnt on bits afterwards. I attempted to cook some scotch pancakes but gave up after about 4 and so our group ate them raw.

We left at 10, we were the last group to leave. We were the first to get back to the station at 1:10. We pwned everyone :P. We phoned the emergency number to ask if we could go home, but all we got was voicemail. The person who phoned her (the same one that lit a load of matches the day previously) was annoyed that there was voicemail and so said 'Fuck you'. She didn't realise that the voicemail 'beep' had gone, so now our D of E instructor has a great message to hear when she turns her phone on. We all hate her anyway, one of the groups that got seriously lost managed to get through to her on phone and she said 'you're on your own' and wouldn't help them. I feel sorry for her 11 month old kid, I really do, to have such a horrid mum like that.

Also, my retainers get mucky so bloody easily. grrr.