Last night I went sledging in Milton Keynes at the snow dome. It was a work outing, which the sales depart arranged as a team building exercise and they decided to invite the rest of the office.
We were told to be there by 18:30 but in reality we did not need to be there till 19:00 when the sledging was arranged to start. I guess that is OK for those people who always turn up late but penalises the punctual people.
We were all split into 4 teams of around 10-11 people, and we then did sledging races on plastic discs with handles each side. The races were all variations on the theme of a relay race, starting with simple one by one just sliding to the bottom then the next one, to the go down and run back up, and then onto everyone in a train.
Running up the hill reminded me why I gave up sledging to take up skiing, with skiing you get dragged to the top of the hill with no effort. I felt for the smokers amongst us they must have really been suffering.
After the “Pink Panthers” were controversially awarded the winners title, we all went to Frankie and Bennies for some fast food. All in all an enjoyable night out with work colleagues, I look forward to what we might do next time sales have a team building exercise, I guess we will have to wait a couple of years to find out.