Boda Borg

Last weekend, November 13th-15th, Jarryd, Stefano and I went to Boda Borg in the town of Torpshammar, which is about 2 and a half hours north west from Hudiksvall. Boda Borg is a house that used to be a mental hospital but has now been made into a a place with many different quests and challenges and team building activities. Each quest has a series of rooms that are like different levels; when you successfully pass one room you can go to the next but if you fail you have to go back to the first one and each quest has a different theme. My favourite quest was called Rats and crawled through passages and climbed in a giant pantry looking for food boxes and there was a giant kitchen where we had to stay away from the cats. There are rooms with motion sensors to crawl under or you can't touch the floor. There aren't any instructions so you have to go in the room and figure it out, find a button or a pulley or solve a puzzle. In one room we rode across the floor in a bathtub on wheels with a pulley system! It was so much fun, we spent the whole day there from 9 to 5 and my knees were sore from crawling though so many small passages! Check out the web site to find out more about the place; www.bodaborg.com ***********During the weekend we stayed a big house near by that was also part of the mental hospital but is now a hostel. There were 12 of us from Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, France, Germany and me from Canada. We practically had the whole hostel to ourselves so we stayed up late hanging out in the sauna or watching TV. On Saturday night, the hostel staff set up a haunted house quest for us in the attic where, supposedly a crazy lady died. It was dark and we could only use the flashlights they gave us to look for 4 number codes to open the locks that were keeping a big chest closed. It wasn't very scary so I added to the atmosphere by playing a terribly out of tune organ.