Surprise surprise, another chilly 7am start, keeping the averages up in more ways than one this week ;) 143km's to Seymour today, only 1 more day left, wow how that time has flown!
The caravan park in Wang was lovely, highly recommended and a lovely little town should anyone be passing through, just b careful of the awful smelling plants in the main street, had me gagging and the boys in stitches (I'd tell you what the smell is compared to but not sure if it's suitable for this blog, ask me sometime and I'll try and tell you without gagging again!)lol
The riders are getting slower and slower everyday to get ready and on their bikes, can u blame them? (just quietly im struggling a bit too, late nights and early mornings arent my thing!) Mother duck starts to quack and round them up once we are about 10 mins over schedule, and the ducklings tend to get in formation pretty quickly, still haven't worked whether they are scared of mother duck or just very obedient ducklings??? They are still smiling, joking and having light hearted digs at each other so I'm guessing that's positive!
They roll out and Jen and I aren't far behinnd, I got some great snaps of them from twinnie :)
Now one thing you need to know about our mother duck is that she luuurves her 'real' coffee, so everyday she asks that we try and stop at a service centre that has a maccas, sure thing we can do that,we haven't been very successful to date but we try this morning however after about 10-12km's when low and behold there's a maccas and a service centre! Jen and I had a laugh wondering if it was too early for our morning tea stop, upon telling the riders we were greated with "oh god no we were commenting how good a hash brown would've gone down as we rode past", I tell ya we just can't win!! ;)
We found a truck stop at the 51km mark, that'll do me, so we pull up and swing into action, freshly made pikelets with jam and cream, oh yes sir we did! My apologies to any spouses out there starting to worry that we r spoiling these guys too much, but let me tell u now they are in for a rude shock tomorrow afternoon, when Jen and I shut up shop! Lol
The ducklings had a great ride in, 7 flats and some very annoying speed humps in the break down lane, why they were there we have no idea, but they concurred that victoria can shove them up their proverbial! There was of course like every other day, plenty of road kill, nice hot stenchy road kill at that! Going back a couple of days now Pete was changing a flat one afternoon, he found the culprit piece of steel and proceeded to pull it out with his teeth. Trish quite politely reminded him of the road kill that this wheel has quite possibly ridden over,nom nom nom, ahhhh we laughed :) oh and of course we can't forget the ridiculous amount of times these naughty male ducklings have had to stop to pee! So much so mother duck knows exactly how each of the boys pee! They all have a unique style apparently, hehehehehe, I told you she was very vigilant!
Onwards we ride (or in my case, drive), lunch stop another 47km's along at another truck stop, rolls cold meats and salad were on the menu here. Jen was busy doing something in twinnie and I was writing the start of this very blog when I hear this almighty scream, I jump up to see what's happening, thinking Ivan Malat was around somewhere, to see a sea of green racing my way, and trish with head down legs pumping Paul on one side, poppy smithy and pete (or the grumpy old men as i have ever so affectionately named them)on the other side, of course I immediately start shouting " go trish!!!!" oh yeh she got em, well done chick :) back to the scream, that had come from barb, apparently her sequel of laughter scarily resembles that of a woman being attacked! Lol. It was great to see them having some fun, however mother duck failed to give us the 5km warning call and jen and I weren't ready!!!! Ahhhhhhh, rolls are not cut or buttered! We got over that pretty quickly, " ah they can do it themselves" was our reaction, lol. During the course of lunch, which by the way was thoroughly enjoyed by all, poppy smithy says " ah Elissa, you've got a flat" , " shit I've got no more spares!" hehehehehe look who has to change some flats before the end of lunch! No pressure E but Trish has given a 5 minute call! Hahahahahaha she's taking this captain role very seriously ;)
Flats sorted, bellies full, and the ducklings are off!
Seymour is the end of today's line, and the end of our second last day. We navigate quite well to our caravan park, and then decide that we will have to escort them in as the directions were a bit tricky to explain. I check us in whilst Jen calls mother duck, we suss out the cabins and then head back to the hwy to pick up the tribe. We sit for a while and then I see the green in the side mirror, ahhhhhh now the pressure is on! Jen I can't see them, they are tucked in behind me and I can't see them in the side mirrors! No worries says Jen i'll go to the back and sit on the toilet and peer out the window! Great thinking! So we get the ducklings safely to the caravan park, no problems, oh except for Jen who proudly declares " I have the strongest inner thigh muscles now from hanging on for dear life backwards on the toilet!" bahahahahaha that's my co pilot :)
So after cleaning bikes, freezing legs off in the goulburn river and then hot showers we are now sitting together by the fire waiting for dinner. This is what it's about, mateship comraderie and THE KIDS :) oh and of course wine and beer!
Tomorrow is our last day, no doubt will be marked with some great times and no doubt tears as the cc's finally finish their dream :) we are all looking forward to seeing our families (those that are coming) at the finish line :)
Good luck guys and stay safe, u have (we have) done an amazing job and our efforts will bring so many smiles to the faces of many sick children.
Doin it for the kids
Clair :)
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