Fun at our Christmas Party

Twenty of us had fun at our annual Staff Christmas Party held at the Yallingup Maze last weekend. Just over an hour after piling on the bus we were at our venue - I am not sure how much more our driver Sheryl could have coped with as there was really off-key singing all the way!

The events and timing on the day was organised by Amanda from the Yallingup Maze. After morning tea on the verandah she organised us in to six teams of three members - the Pink Skulls, Stars, Sea Creatures (Jelly Dudes), Geckos, Waves and Pitt Pass. One member of our party was the adjudicator watching for cheating from the tower and Manny was the official spectator (not that he saw much, he just couldn't make it up all those stairs!). There was a lot of yelling, doubling back and misinformation bandied about between the teams and I felt sorry for those people not in our party trying to complete the puzzle as everyone sped pass them on the race to the finish. The winning team was the Pink Skulls but we know they cheated somehow! It took them just 32 minutes to complete the puzzle with last place getter's, the Waves, taking 40 minutes. We all agreed that we had the best fun ever!

We had pre-ordered our lunch from the menu so it wasn't long before we were all tucking in and sitting around reminiscing about our exploits of the morning. Amanda then brought us over some puzzles to attempt and some of them were very very tricky! Those that were more athletic played cricket in the park whilst those that didn't want to be defeated by the puzzles kept on solving them.

By mid-afternoon we packed up to leave but a necessary toilet stop about halfway home had us dropping in to see one of our staff members on maternity leave. Just imagine her face when 19 people turned up to use the facilities!!!! She took it in her stride and we were soon back on the bus and heading  to Bunbury.

More food was waiting for us at the home of the owners for those who wanted to stay for a BBQ so the party continued for quite a few more hours. Manny didn't even make it off the bus, he fell asleep on the way home and just kept sleeping until he was dropped back to his Confined Space the next morning.

  

Variety is the spice of the CTS Christmas Party and each year we do something different. Some of the more recent ones have been a Pirate Murder Party, Collie River Cruise with Dinner, Bunbury's Amazing Race and the Etmilyn Diner train. Thank you very much to Karen and John for treating us to this years fantastic day out. But, I can't wait to see what unfolds next year!

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