On Monday, March 27, the missionaries from Philippine Challenge went to Outland Adventure. This was the first time for Tara to participate in the "adventures" and Eric had done a few before. We started out with low elements which are the Trust Fall and the wall. The trust fall is a platform 5 feet in the air and you stand and fall into the groups arms. The wall is a 12 ft. wall that you have to get your whole team over without a ladder, step stool, or anything like that. Just imagination and your team. Then we started the high elements which include: vertical playpen, catwalk, trapeze jump, pamper pole, and the zipwire. Vertical playpen is a series of logs and tires that you and your partner must climb to the top and touch a cowbell and then come down. The catwalk is a log 60 ft. in the air that you have to walk across and then back to the middle and then come down. The trapeze jump is a platform 35 ft. up that you jump from and try to touch a ball that is about 8 to 10 ft. away from the platform. The pamper pole is a 60 ft. pole that you have to climb to the top of and stand on and state a goal, then jump. The zipwire is 300 ft. across a lake. Eric and Tara were partners on the vertical playpen and were able to make to the top after a lot of struggle and bruises. Tara did all of the high elements except for the pamper pole. Eric did all of them and had a scary little mishap on the zipwire. The staff uses a rope to stop you at the end. Well...when Eric went the rope broke when trying to stop him. Thankfully he was able to stop. We had a lot of fun but more importantly worked as a team.
