Joint Event: Christmas Party

Brave YPA astronauts dressed as their favorite Celestial body, Spacecraft, Alien or Space Adventurer went along to the Space Thames and climbed aboard the Space Boat for a trip up and down the twisty Space lanes of the Thames. After finishing the food rations, there was only one thing to do, cracking out the medical alcohol.

Joint Event: Monopoly Bar Crawl

Saddling up for a rootin’ tootin’ good time as the YPA travels to the best watering holes in the Wild West. Dressed to impress,  as cowboys and Indians drinking at every square on the Monopoly board. 22 pubs in total! At least a half pint in every one. Anyone not willing to drink in a pub or follow the rules of the west takes a Chance card and performs the forfeit/challenge!

Not everyone made it to the last pub, but everyone at least did made it home.

Joint Event: Thorpe Park

On Saturday 15^th September a large group of adrenaline junkies from Stevenage and Portsmouth headed to Thorpe Park in Surrey for a day of excitement! After arriving and picking up 96 fast track passes to four ‘coasters (the girl at the counter thought I was having her on at first!) we set off to try out the brand new Swarm rollercoaster. Following the thrill of this “winged” ride, we also jumped the queues for the classic Nemesis Inferno, ridiculously fast Stealth (80mph in 2.3 seconds!) and the terrifying Saw. The fast track passes really made the difference as the queues were anything from an hour to an hour and a half without them; it just felt wrong to have to queue after we’d used them up! Other rides sampled included getting drenched on a Tidal Wave, going loopy for Colossus and even a go on the infamous teacups for some! With a turnout of 24 people, a fantastic day was had by all, finished off with a couple of drinks and a pub meal back in London afterwards.

Joint Event: Farnborough Air Show

Farnborough International Air Show - a chance for companies to show of what they have to offer, this year was no different! With some rather interesting flying displays from the aircraft seeing a mixture of their good and poor weather condition displays. Rather interesting to see just what an A380 can really do!

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Joint Event: Paintballing

This years paintball joint event between Portsmouth, Stevenage and SSTL was held at Holmbush Paintball down in Crawley. It was an early start on the Saturday morning but we had a good turn out of about 35 people. The main teams were Portsmouth verses Stevenage with SSTL splitting up to balance out the 2 teams.

The Stevenage team got off to a great start allowing them to secure victory in the first game. Sadly this trend dominated thought out the rest of the day granting Stevenage the overall winners with a scored of 74 to Portsmouth's -6. There were a lot of good shots though out the day and some lovely souvenirs bruises to go along with them. Over it was a great day out where everybody managed to make it home alive. Bring on next years paintballing! Portsmouth will have its revenge!