Red Team

Hi everyone.  My name is Fiona the Flamingo and I came to visit Badaguish from Flamingoland.  I was invited by some very lovely people at Scottish Disability Sport who promised me lots of new friends and amazing sunshine.  At least one of those things came true and I have met lots of new friends.  Hopefully the sun will come out again tomorrow.  I am part of the exciting red team and we will be competing with the other teams to win a trophy at the end of the camp.  The other teams have been a bit mean and have deflated me a couple of times, I think it is the green team who are being sneaky!!  

As you can see my new friends have given me lots of adventures already.  I have been hanging from rings and my team mates have been doing something called cycling.  Unfortunately they said I wasn’t able to go on the bike as they didn’t have one adapted for flamingos, but it did look great fun! 

What a day!  My new friends decided to share some of my baby mascots lunch as you can see below in some of the photos.  Sadly a sneaky green team person deflated me….. but a kind red team member made sure I was fully inflated after it so that after lunch we had a little walk around finding out about our new team mates. We have spent the afternoon doing amazing things – orienteering, cycling and we even toasted marshmallows by a fire we built.  It reminded me of my toasty times when I lived in a warm climate called Flamingo land… Meanwhile, M. A. Scott the bull got stuck right into the activities (on account of being a bit more compact and less flammable). He was driven around on an accessible bike and got to tuck into some delicious marshmallows that he toasted himself on the fire that red team chopped sticks for, prepared and lit (with a striker – not a match or lighter in sight). He even got roped into sweeping the floor after lunch.

Well sorry to say today I have bad news.  My team left me at home watching the TV.  They did however remember and take M A Scott who apparently had an amazing time.  Today he told me it was a long adventure walk and I am glad I didn’t go as I am quite lazy and just like just standing on one leg.   I think I will stay at Badaguish as it is an amazing place, but M A Scott has met some good friends and will go with Scottish Disability Sport for more adventures. Today the team went an amazing hike, followed by a bbq, games, karaoke, boccia and some free time to spend with all the new friends I have made.  Looking forward to tomorrow but not looking forward to saying goodbye to everyone!

Well it turns out yesterday we managed to trick you, as I was taken out on the walk, but completely deflated to hide in one of the campers bags.  That was so those pesky green and blue team members were completely thrown of the scent and couldn’t find me.  It worked, but we still didn’t win, the green team won, but that’s okay as we still all had an amazing time.

The last day was a bit sad as everyone said their goodbyes, but we do hope we can meet somewhere again in the future.  Before all our friends left, we had a lot of fun and games in the undercover area like flying around fast on these wheeled boards, flipping big heavy tyres and building dens.  Lots of highland games style fun followed by a scrummy lunch and then lots of goodbyes.  

I think all my new friends did have fun as they were always smiling and I am sure will go home to tell tales of their adventures.  In the meantime, I am going to go back to flamingoland and see my other friends and tell them all the exciting things I got up to in Aviemore.

Till next time – bye bye from Fiona and Mr M A Scott.