Hey everyone! Today we hosted another open event for people on our waiting list to attend. Considering we did a mail check this week and cleared our waiting list from 160 down to 60 people, and that it's the summer holidays, a lot of people turned up! There were many new faces and I had a great time meeting and getting to know you all. This weeks open event was ocean themed! Why? No other reason than I like the ocean and it was the first theme I could think of. Everyone arrived at Dew's Paddock in Epona for 6:15 dressed in blue, ocean themed clothes. At 6:30, I split everyone up into three different groups lead by our Riding Instructors Ursula Moonwood, Elizabeth Ponyson, Nikolett Highfoot with help from a couple of our Champions, Sophia Puppyvalley and Hannah Dolphincamp. There were 3 different games played within all the groups. The first game, Sharks in the Water, was much like a game of tag altered to work inside SSO. 2 - 3 people would be chosen to be the "Sharks" and everyone else was the "Fish" they had to catch. To catch someone out the Sharks had to point at someone. It was quite entertaining watching everyone run around like headless chickens. Cue the the Jaws theme music! The second game was an ocean based quiz. There were two different objects (for my group, it was two different colour lanterns) that were marked A and B. When a question was called out, everyone had to run and stand next to the answer they thought was correct. Anyone who got it wrong was out of the game, and this continued until only one person was left standing to be crowned the winner. A few examples of the questions are: "Oceans cover what percentage of the Earth's surface? A; 70% or B: 60%", "Which ocean is the largest? A: Atlantic Ocean or B: Pacific Ocean", "How many of the worlds sharks are killed each year for their fins? A: 40 million or B: 10 million". The third and final game was called Sink or Swim, the aim of this game was to be able to name a bunch of different ocean themed things as quickly as possible or you would "sink", and be out of the game. Some examples of things people had to call out were, name a breed of shark, name an ocean, name a breed of fish, name a sea plant, and many more. At 7:15 all the groups met back up at New Hillcrest stables for a picture and a picnic while the club sent in their votes for who they wanted to join. After a long while of discussion between myself, our Leaders and our Riding Instructors it was decided that Willow Kittengarden, Violet Westbear and Sofia Waterstar would be joining today! A big welcome to them all, and a huge thank you to everyone that came to our open event today! It was great hanging out with you all. The Short List has been updated, and the Interest List is soon to follow with all our new applications. I hope to see you all again at our next open event on the 16th August! Until then, thanks for reading!
- Alli
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