So this weekend I went to a friend’s hen do… she had no idea where she was going or what she was doing and she never would have guessed!
For those who don’t remember the TV show ‘It’s a Knockout’ from the 70s and 80s, it consisted of contestants battling against each other in oversized animal suits and on water/soap covered inflatable obstacle courses.
This was the ‘giant race’… the hen was in 1 of the giant costumes and had to walk across the mats that are being moved by the other teams to try and knock you over. Funny to watch as the ‘giants’ crumpled to the floor.
This is the hen’s sister in law-to be dressed as a penguin for ‘Penguin Sumo’… basically the person who ended up either pushed out of the ring or onto their back first was the loser. It was a good laugh watching the winning ‘penguin’ doing their celebratory dance 🙂
The last of the pictures I took (obviously I couldn’t take pictures of events I took part in) was the ‘slippery summit’. Contestants had to pull themselves up a wet and slippery slope with a rope and then slide down the other side.
One of my main goals is to be able to develop my upper body strength enough to give me the power to be able to do this sort of thing. I have never had any core or upper body strength, even when I would have considered myself fairly fit. Watch this space 😉
I will be completely honest and tell you this event wasn’t something I was looking forward to or would have considered my cup of tea but it was a good laugh and certainly a different way of getting to know the people you are with. We laughed so hard that we cried and it certainly broke the ice before the night out that followed.
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