What a whirlwind weekend the Regatta was this year, and a whole whack of fun!!
We had the luxury of starting our holiday the Tuesday before the Regatta and were good and toxic before the weekend even started. Friday was the start of the tumultuous weekend when the Grady family arrived smack dab in the middle of the Family Dance. We were a bit late attending as we were trapped in the trailer during the hail storm of 2010. I spent the rest of the weekend peeing and sleeping in the rain as the roof vents in our trailer got destroyed. A couple fence posts got mangled as they toppled over and Justin's poor toes suffered frost bite as he tried to minimize the damage. Wuwee what a start!!!
Tab and I woke up Saturday morning with our game faces on. It was a well fought battle but I got skunked in the "Red Ribbon" category. Tab schooled me again in the sprint but I held my own in the newly created 16-39 age category. I won 2nd place in all the other races. Tab actually got a trophy in the "Hammer and Nail" contest.... Going to be hard to top that... All the kids did awesome. The younger ones thought it would be more fun to run to Uncle Justin than the finish line, but the older ones all medalled. I really enjoyed candy overloading Tabs kids as revenge though. He He He.... The inaugural "Knotty Mile" was a gong show. The obstacle course consisted of running a 1/2 km in a full sprint sandwiched between teams twice our size. The team with legs as long as my entire body surprisingly beat us... Odd.
We had fun at the parade, Verity was in the parade this year proudly representing the library as a blue elephant. The kids had the exciting job of collecting as much candy thrown from the floats as possible. Justin once again embarrassed himself raising money for the fireworks. This time it wasn't with balloons, it was with a pillow, and big booties. Lucas and Ayla thought he was pretty funny looking.
The kids were lucky Saturday night as Aunty Heather fed them an entire bag of marshmallows and insisted they all sleep over in her tent. What a deal!!! They farted around and played until dark. It was entertaining for awhile but Sebastian was the first casualty moving to the trailer a couple hours in. Surprisingly the rest slept through the night and Justin and I had a nice quiet evening in the trailer.
We attended the water races on Sunday, Grandma Judy brought along as our cheering section. The inner tube races were fun and I taught Allison a lesson being that she insisted I join in the humiliation by wrapping each stumpy leg of mine around an inner tube and run through thigh deep water.... She didn't make it very far before I dunked the poor girl... She got even.
Poor Justin spent Sunday erecting a fence with Dad, Brent and Jamie. Lets just say it looks awesome and even though we can still hear the highway, we can't really see it. My poor native friend can't sit on the other side of the highway and partake in our daily life anymore unfortunately, but every action has a consequence...
I was a big let down Monday on many levels. I choked and burned in the volleyball tournament, tennis was a joke, and I wiped out my son on the back of my bike all in one day. We'll leave Monday at that. I do have to give Verity a big thank you for retrieving the tennis balls on the other side of the 15 ft tennis court fence. That should give you an idea of my skill level. We left that evening therefore wrapping up a eventful and exciting Regatta 2010 weekend.
