ARGH ADD'ING BADLY (*&^%$#@%^&*( SOMEONE HELP ME WITH METHODS PLEASE.. i'll be forever in your debt. =(

i'm aching like nuts now. everywhere hurts. up down left right, i had to literally roll out of bed this morning. and while all the other girls are making feminine ladylike 'ouches' and 'ows'.. the sound that escapes when i'm in pain is somewhat more like a very unladylike groan. or 'ooomph' or 'oaaargh' =( i haven't been in such agony since ages.

all cos of that even more amazing race. a short recap of saturday's youth launch:
9.00 - participants assembled in front of church, 54 nungerner st.
9.30 - we'd gotten our teams, i was with tranny, maumau & alastair. this was very good indeed since tranny and alastair are pretty good with general directions. or so we thought. ;p we got our first clue and all teams raced to myrtle park. after about 1 street tranny and i wanted to keel over and die. it was more physical exercise than i've done in about a year.
first stop : mrytle park, where we had to chuck tennis balls to knock over a bucket from 398741329847m away -.- my ball barely bounced halfway so i gave up. when we finally knocked the buckets over.. we discovered the bucket was going to join the team. inside were snack bars, our clue and coins for the tram. :p
next stop - IKEA at richmond all the way in vic gardens, where we had to purchase some random items. obviously everything was in swedish, and IKEA is massive, so we all got lost a fair bit. had some mix up with all the thing we had to buy and that placed us last =p
then off we raced to the city, where our next stop was VIC MARKET =o and we had to buy 10kg of watermelon. but! :p since we were last, we couldn't find any watermelons after all the teams ahead all bought their 10 kilos each. so our task changed to '15 dollars worth of fruit' and we bought GRAPES.. lolol at the other teams with their 10kg of watermelon and our little bag of grapes =D and they were GOOD grapes too!
then off to flagstaff gardens for the 'iron chef' to prepare our lunch. =p no prizes for guessing what it was, since between the 10 or so teams we had more than a 100 kg of watermelon. then trannie had a bright idea and we decided to take the train. =p

and got lost.

when.. flagstaff gardens was right beside vic market. *smacks head*

tranny got sick.. so she sat there and ate enough watermelon to pee like a horse for the following hours, while the rest of the team got fast fowarded to the state library. our next clue was to be found in the RMIT library opposite, but by the time we got there, all the books were gone =p SABOTAGE i tell you.

so we got fast forwarded again. oh well =p

to CROWN we went, to the fountains where we had to use our buckets (and all the time i was wondering why they wouldn't give us like a shopping bag - which you know, is so much more socially acceptable to carry around the city than a bucket) to collect 8L's of water from the fountain. :p tranny had a stroke of brilliance while sitting there and we got maumau to run in the middle and place the bucket where the most water sloshed. so we sat there all dry and toasty while every other team had at least one person sopping wet. ha. :p very smug.

then.. to.. royal botanical gardens where 1 member of the team had to be piggybacked around trees + fountain. poor maurice bore the brunt of this very bravely =p he ended up carrying a 100kg in one afternoon, both me and tracy. now i hurt just from trying to hang on since i was slipping off his back.

...and since maurice was so tall, i couldn't exactly direct them where to go very well (everyone was blindfolded cept me) and .. suddenly. i heard my team members cry out as they stepped into some fertiliser lying on the ground. whoopsie. :p

then back to andrew's house all the way in balwyn. the tram was effing crowded and i was so tired, i wedged myself into some practically nonexistent space and sat there for the whole journey on the 109 back. credit to those who were still going at the puzzles. (with each stop we got really mind-wrecking puzzles, sudokus, riddles, etc.)

at andrew's house, we had a food challenge. Chicken Heart, Pig Liver, Blood Cube.. and Snickers. =p THANK GOD tranny eats absolutely everything, and seeing the look on my face, maumau went 'i guess ur taking the snickers' lol.

=D

ran to church after that and had to find a box. gave up. and we had a bbq dinner :D

and now im too tired to blog anymore. good bye!

... we did not arrive last contrary to popular belief. we were fourth last, so there ._. and we won the 'most lost team' LOL.