Admin Day Out - Eagle Park, June 2008
June 13th, 2008 by Pearly Grey
This year: admin day out, Eagle Park
One of the many perks of working at Pearly Grey is that once a year, the Administration and Accounts teams go for a day out together. In my experience, this always includes a meal (good) and some kind of physical exertion (sweaty), as you can see below:
Lily and Mariana suffering in “The Gorge of Hell” during our May 2007 outing.
This year, we went to Eagle Park. Our day started out seemingly benign. We worked for 3 hours in the morning, then drove over the the park, which is located in Chayofa, near Los Cristianos. We sat down and had a nice meal of salad, chicken and chips (spaghetti for me, the vegetarian), bread, water and wine. All was fine until we got to the dessert, when tragedy struck.
The plastic spoon of Ricardo was mortally wounded at this point.
After mourning the broken spoon, we walked down a few steps and were right in the Exotic Birds Show area. They actually have a sixty-one year old parrot there named Scooby Doo who is a trained mechanic! It was a great show, presented in both English and Spanish so everyone could understand.
From there, we walked around, looking at all the different kinds of animals there, including monkeys, penguins, big cats of all types, alligators, and crocodiles.
Then we reached my favourite part: the bobsled.
Pauline nearly plowed over by speed-demon, Elizabeth.
Trina, Pauline, and Elizabeth
Mariana, Wendy, and Anabel
Anabel and Ricardo
Not everyone wanted to participate in this death-defying activity, but those of us who did could not stop smiling afterwards.
From there, we went on the Jungle Raid, which challenged us to walk over suspension bridges, slide down poles, and climb up and down rope ladders.
Needless to say, this was where the physical exertion came in. We admin people cannot handle much:
Mariana and Wendy
Francoise and Anabel
After a short rest on the immaculate, natural wood chairs, we moved on to the Birds of Prey Show, where we saw vultures, eagles, and other birds of enormous size. There was even a local eagle trying to defend its territory against the birds in the show - it was nerve-wracking to see how the local bird dove at the star of our show, but in the end all was well.
Unlike our last day out, we were all in good condition the following day, sore muscle and sunburn free.