Friday
We all arrived at the Oaks campsite on a cold Friday night to be hosts of the bear Rally chaired by Simon with a committee of Cat, Zoe, Brewer, Chappers and Martin oh and not forgetting Scogui bear the font of all knowledge. First job was to put up our tents and unload all of the food from the van (I have never seen so much bread in my life). Then to prepare for the arrivals, my job for the evening was first stint in the car park, where everyone got parked on the now frozen grass with no accidents, whilst this was going on the rest of Scogui were directing from the top of the drive, booking people in and making soup and coffee (a very important job). After booking in it was time for the campfire, which included the full version of the Scogui/ yogi bear song then time for bed in the now frozen tents.

Saturday
Everyone dragged themselves out of their frozen tents some in time for breakfast some not, then got ready for a day of fun. First to happen was the morning incident hike, though I got the nice easy job of sitting on a base in a warm car with Antz for the morning. After the hike onto Nanpantan Scout hut for hotdogs and organising for the afternoons activities. After lunch people left on a variety of activities including, the hike, skittles in the swan, a trip on the steam railway and many more. I went off to the Space centre in Leicester and had a great afternoon exploring and playing on the kiddie activities with Barry. When back in Loughborough we met up in the Union and all headed up to Cayley Hall for tea and the barn dance. Food was enough to revive some of the now very tired Scogui members but it took me a trip home to my nice warm shower to be awake enough to participate in some of the barn dancing and looking at people’s insane costumes. Then back to site to light the fire for the evening and await the return of the rest of SSAGO! After which more singing followed and lots of sleeping on my part.

Sunday
Everyone was up for breakfast again and then most of the morning was spent having a SSAGO AGM followed by the closing ceremony attended by the Mayor of Loughborough at which Simon was presented with a bear factory bear!!!! After lunch came the job of taking down all the tents and clearing everything up ready to go home, though some clubs were delayed due to the kidnapping of various mascots. Then we all departed the campsite after a fun rally and met up later in EHB for tea and the wide-awake people even stayed for the quiz.

Written by Jen-E

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