“A royal ship is this town too
Stand on it’s shores for a northern view”
On Sunday, Andy and I had the five members of YF round for the afternoon. We have been going through the junior Christianity Explored course with them, and this was our equivalent of a weekend away - an afternoon in glorious Inverkeithing!
After food and a couple of talks, we took advantage of the fact that we are currently a two car house hold, and embarked upon a car treasure hunt. This involved working out a series of clues which Andy had spent most of Saturday preparing, and then answering a question about the location we ended up in.
You might have already guessed, but the opening to this post was one of the clues. I think it is the one which kept both teams stuck the longest. Sophie, Ruth and I even had to phone Andy for help as the only royal ship we could think of was Britannia, and we were pretty sure he didn’t expect us to drive all the way to Edinburgh … Most of you have probably already worked out that the answer was South Queensferry, but even after working out the Queensferry part, both teams still opted to visit North Queensferry first!
After an hour and a half of driving around Inverkeithing, Rosyth, Dalgety Bay and both Queensferrys, visiting locations like the vets, the Cumming’s back garden, and even the dump, my team emerged victorious over Jack, Ceit and Philip. Losers!
I remember at camp once, I told a fellow junior leader that I wasn’t really ‘in to’ treasure hunts as we trudged our way around Blackford Hill, keeping an eye on the hyperactive young girls we were in charge of, as they frantically searched for feathers and snails. Well, I might have to eat my words because when they are as good as the one on Sunday I am definitely ‘in to’ them!
Catherine
