Picture Post - Regatta Day 2

Pictures from Day 2 (sunday) of the Regatta.

Marshalling

Heading out for Race 1

Lyn scored some mouse ears from the Orlando team.

Rosie and Barbara on their way to take part in the Sandy Smith Global Race and Flowers on the Water Ceremony.

Team tents lined the foreshore of the lake

Paddling out for Flowers on the Water Ceremony

The grandstands were filled with spectators for the ceremony

Last race of the day - Semi Final No. 2

2nd place in our semi-final was a great victory for our team.  Go Pinkies!!

Picture Post - Regatta Day 1

A few pictures from regatta day 1.  It was very wet and very cold, can you tell???.......

Maz warming the girls up

Heading down to the boat for the first race!

We won!

Celebrating the Win!!!

Picture Post - Cedric's adventures

I know you've all be waiting for this so here it is.............
The Canadian Adventures of Cedric the Dragon!

On the plane to Canada!  Cedric liked to check how much further we had to go.

Cedric met lots of nice people on the Pub Crawl.

Cheering the girls on at their training session.

Natas Cafe in Peterborough.  The nicest coffee Cedric found.

Cedric loves Pie!!!  4 fruit pie with cookie dough vanilla icecream at Natas.

On the bus with Jane and Lyn.  Going shopping at Sears.

Cedric had a lot of fun on the Peterborough Lift Lock boat tour.

Walking with Maz and Donna in the Parade.

Cedric (and Julie) met a lovely policeman walking in the parade.

Cedric with "his girls" after first day of regatta.

Cedric enjoyed the special Gala Dinner on saturday night.  Especially the wine and chocolates!

Cheering the girls on for the semi-final race.

On the bus to Niagara with Denise.  It was too cold and wet for Cedric so he stayed on the bus to sleep.

He did manage to meet a Canadian Mountie though!

Canada Trip all done

Our Canada trip is done now, we've all gone our separate ways from Toronto and are on our own adventures.

We had a lot of fun in Niagara Falls.  Lots of laughter and ooh's and ahh's.  We did the Behind the Falls where you walk through tunnels and see the water rushing down in front of you (the sound was incredible),  Niagara Fury which was an interactive movie where the floor moved and rain, snow and wind blew all around us (yes we got wet!) and then Maid of the Mist, the famous boats that take you right up to the falls, now that was Amazing!

We then arrived in Toronto in the evening and a few went out partying till the wee hours.  A few hours in the morning for a quick tour of Toronto, some hitting the massive underground shopping malls and others doing the CN Tower.

Now we've gone our separate ways I won't be posting for a while.  I'll do a few posts updating all the photos now that i'm in Vancouver with access to fast internet.

I think the ladies would all agree it was a fantastic trip!
xoxo Jules

Goodbye Peterborough

We've said goodbye to Peterborough this morning and are on the way to Niagara Falls for the day.

I think it's safe to say we've all really enjoyed our stay in Peterborough. We've met so many beautiful and generous people from all over the world and many have made new friends to keep in touch with. Wishing we could have stayed a little longer! Thank you Peterborough for a wonderful festival!

On to the next adventure now. Niagara Falls maid of the mist and behind the falls tour should be a lot of fun!!!

Sunday race results

The last day in Peterborough and what a great day it was! I know you're all waiting for race results so here they are......

Our first race we came 3rd with a time of 2.44.00.
In the 2nd race the ladies were fantastic. They looked so good out on the water but were just pipped at the post. It was so close!!!

1st - pittwater pinks 2.42.60
2nd - Redcliffe pink snapdragons 2.42.73
3rd - DA Sydney 2.43.35
4th - Missibittititti 2.43.83

I think it was the most celebrated 2nd ever!

A fantastic end to the Regatta.

Will post pics when I can get to a real computer :)

Woo hoo! Our ladies are AWESOME!!!

First races done today. Yep, they won both!!!!! Times were 2.43 for race one and 2.42 for the 2nd. They looked fantastic on the water too. Pics to come later. Were off to the Gala Dinner to celebrate!!!! Yay!

Regatta day today!

First day of racing today and have just been woken up (at 5am!)by a thunderstorm!!! Yesterday was beautiful and sunny, today raining! Oh no! Hoping it will clear a little by first race at 8.30.

pinkie power

Hi all my sisters, have done the raffles with rose-marie, helen & brian. have done breakfast with mum, rose-marie and rhonda, and a lady came up to me as she is currently having treatment and heard about the pinkies in the paper, i had my bright shirt on of course.  That was after what i thouht was going to be a 2hr training session turned out to be a full 2 hr paddle to practice for the 21 klm marathon, if nothing else it convinced me i don't want to do it, no fun for 2 hrs just bloody sore & tired.  have i made you feel guilty yet.  NOoo  oh well i guess nothing can stop you having such a good time, so get those lungs ready and scream hard for all of us too please.

hi arthur, the girls have been to scared to go to training without you, and after today i don't blame them at all, they miss you.

To all the Pink Snapdragons everybody here at Redcliffe wishes you all the best,
you are constantly in our thoughts and we wish you all the best on saturday,
go get em girls and have fun doing it. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Peterborough Street Parade

Lots of fun today when we participated in the Street Parade down the main street of Peterborough.  It was fantastic that so many of the locals turned out to cheer us on and also dress up in Pink.  We then had a great BBQ dinner at the park on the lake where there were stalls etc for all the teams to enjoy.