Horsemanship was once a vital skill, much like the ability to avoid sailing off the end of the earth or the ability to discern which pizza trees were poisonous. Master an ancient art of survival with today's Groupon: for $59, you get a one-hour small-group polo lesson (a $150 value) at The Polo Organization in Essa. Students must be 10 years or older to participate.
The Polo Organization's 100 acres include six fenced outdoor fields and one lighted indoor facility to confine students of all skill levels inside a safe and controlled environment. Grab a provided mallet and helmet before hopping atop one of the school's trained horses before an instructor elucidates the subtleties of the sport, such as objectives, technique, and why water polo is not regular polo on seahorses. Polo lessons span 60-minutes and max out at six participants to ensure personal instruction and safety. While students meld body and spirit with new equine friends, a professional photographer snaps photos, which pupils can then hang on a wall or affix to the chest of a collared shirt.
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The Groupon Guide to: Archaeology
Archaeology is the science of digging up dirt to find morsels of broken ceramics and delicious bones to make history soup. Here’s a guide to executing an archaeological dig:
• Any location can be an archaeological site if you dig deep enough. Sift through your neighbour’s trash to find a wealth of information about how humans survive and where the catalogues go after you circle everything you want and leave them on your neighbour's doorstep.
• Digging for bones used to be outsourced to dogs, but ever since they embarrassed us at the dog park, humans have done our own digging. Be sure to bring a shovel, a trowel, and an insatiable need to destroy an earthworm's habitat.
• Archaeologists collect human bones to remind us that everyone in the past was a spooky skeleton until humans evolved to have flesh in the late 1950s and souls in the early 1990s.
• When an archaeologist finds a pottery fragment, he must also find the other fragments of the jar it came from and reassemble them, or risk being the only archaeologist who has never drunk mead from an ancient jar.
• Use carbon dating to find out how old fossils are. Carbon dating is a process in which scientists take fossilized carbon on a date and ask it questions about the 1970s to find out if it is old enough to remember that time period.
• If you can't find any fossils, make some of your own by putting a lizard in a tray of wet clay.
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