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A great weekend away organised by the best man as a pre-wedding wedding retreat. Good bonding time. Had so much fun that I forgot to take photos :P
The highlight of the trip has to be the "bonding games" my friend came up with. So ridiculous, and so fun.
He organised three challenges, dividing the eight of us who went on the retreat into two teams.
The first challenge involved navigating a maze that he constructed using wooden pickets and string - with everyone blindfolded. The first team out of the maze won. Unfortunate to say the other team won this challenge.
The second challenge had two parts. The first, was to construct two coffee tables 50cmx50cm and at least 13cm high using planks of wood, nails, hammer and saw that each team was provided. The second part, was to navigate the maze from the first challenge (this time not blindfolded), but only standing on the two coffee tables we constructed. Note, there were four fully grown adult (Asian) men on each team. The first team to reach the finish line wins. However, if our tables break, we lose. Our teams finished the tables and started the maze navigating at roughly the same time, but not even 10 minutes into navigating the maze, one of the other team's coffee tables lost two of its legs, so we won. For the record, our team was ahead in the maze when they were disqualified.
The final challenge involved playing soccer, using the three intact and one broken coffee tables as makeshift goals. The catch: we could only use our left leg to kick the ball. None of us were left side dominant.
The game was meant to finish after two ten minute halves. After extra time after the second half, however, we were tied on two goals each. We were too into it to leave it at a tie, so we played on for the golden goal. Another twenty minutes later, the other team finally scored. Though on a points basis one team lost and one gained, but really, all of us gained. It required a really big team effort to fight till the end, and we did it. I was really happy with the outcome, and with my friend for coming up with the games. We were all so sore the next day.
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