Pooh Sticks
Ever played Pooh Sticks before? All you need is a river and preferably a bridge. We’re lucky enough to have that equipment down the road from our house. We headed off on our scooters on Sunday afternoon to play us our first game. It was Carli’s idea. She had watched the game on an episode of Pooh Bear during the morning.
It’s really very simple to play, but darn difficult to win. Everyone picks a stick. Stand on one side of the bridge, drop the sticks at the same time and the first stick to emerge on the other side, or in our case pass the pyramid shaped rock just down stream wins the competition.
It was a fierce competition. Jordan’s first two sticks disappeared in the first rapid. She wasn’t a happy camper. She doesn’t like losing, ever. Carli won the first two so very easily. All kinds of theories emerged. Bigger sticks are faster. Lighter sticks ‘drown’. To be honest none of the theories checked out while we played. And I think Carli kept winning, because while Jordi and I dropped ours straight down, Carli threw hers down stream, way ahead of ours : )
Thankfully the river gods stepped in and Jordi won the third heat (otherwise we may never have gone home)
So if you’re ever in the area, and you’re looking for something different to do, the Scooter girls will be more than willing to take you down the road for some Pooh Sticks.
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