Numbers.....

Hi everyone, it seems like many of you have had a great laugh at our expense. Don't worry, 95% of the time we've been laughing too!! I just didn't think it possible for so many random things to happen on one trip! Anyway, we were going to write a list of numbers on day one but this list will be way more impressive as we have our last breakfast together.......well sort of together, shared with about 30 other people in a crowded hallway of a motel near the airport in Chicago.

1 team

28 days away (or 56 for Dale, Wendy, Finn, Carl)

13 people

10 athletes

1 coach

9 kayaks at departure

0 kayaks at arrival

3 kayaks for the lucky few…shipped from Europe

8 days waiting for kayaks from LAX

4900 KMS my car has driven

5400 kms Wendy car….lots of trips to supermarket and Garmin getting her lost!!

4700 ish kms wendy drove

1500 ish for dale

5600 kms for me including trip to fetch kayaks.

25 pieces of luggage at start, 14 arrived in Ottawa

46 hours time to get to Ottawa from Auckland

72 hours for Dale!!!!

4 flights of stairs to get kayaks to our rooms in this hotel

97 sets of roadworks

Score….Andy 34, Garmin GPS 3 (That’s roughly how many times I was right with no map and Garmin was wrong!!)

17 hour drive from Niagara to Wausau

10 hour drive last night from Duluth to Chicago

4 days, roughly how long we have spent in the cars!!!!!

8 baseball caps bought

2 overloaded minivans with 12 kayaks on the roof with 4 large bits of wood.

00 yes zero run ins with the law…..so far.

165455463654646 hours kids spent combined on the internet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1 hour spent doing homework (combined for whole team from what I can work out)

72 loads of washing

1 foreign ’hookup’….but the boys are still trying……

8 different accommodations

9 kayaks and 14 paddles......that 7 of us are going to attempt to fly home with....

23 times we thought about hitting the bottle…….but 0 times we did