Location: Mountain Point, Virgin Gorda
Today was one for the books. After a much-needed late wake-up call, we all rolled out of bed to a French toast breakfast prepared by chefs Sadie and Jerry. We took our time getting underway and got some practice sailing to Savannah Bay, where we started to prepare for the 2025 AQ Boat Olympics. This consisted of a pregame Wobble as well as a game where we listened to “Thunder” and had to drink water every time the word was said. Needless to say, we were ready for action. After some quick war paint, we hopped in the dinghy and sped to the beach where the rest of the boat crews were gathered. Event one: Tug of war. After losing to “nacho dinghy” in the first round, we were a bit humbled, but this gave us the fire we needed to come back in full force for the second event: Soapy dinghy King of the hill. In a relay-style event, two students were selected, Sadie and I, to try to climb into a floating dinghy covered in dish soap, defended by three staff members. After winning bronze, we started event three, Pringle fill relay, where the name of the game was to fill your team’s Pringle can with water using anything we could, shirts, hair, and of course, our mouths. For added difficulty, the staff defended the route to the sea by any means necessary. We scored bronze again and moved on to event four: buoy rodeo, where Zoey offered up her skills, placing us in fifth. We were all tired after our performance in the 2025 AQ Boat Olympics and came back to Oryx to eat a hearty meal of Risotto and chicken Caesar salad. We called it a night. See you tomorrow!