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Day 2, Still in Sydney but i dont know where the day going to end

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

Got up very early in the morning, it is cold, and my body is aching….. What? Do we need to walk again? Yes, straight to the first ferry to Olympic Park, then straight hop on a bike and off we go. Yuval, studied the map of the Olympic park on the ferry, so we knew where to go, we found the Olympic stadium pretty quick, and to find Fatso the Wombat on one of the pole next to the stadium was easy too since one of the real race crew members was next to it to give us our next lead note. Nice place this park, it is so much fun riding here, and no stress since the rules were saying that we need to leave first since we finished last the day before.
Next destination a BMX track, what!!! I thought I might give it a go, but I saw someone from the other teams try to attempt it and we fell on the first go, so I figured since it is a one team member task Yuval should do it and not me. After Yuval’s first attempt he said it is very hard and tiring. On his second attempt he was half dead already, his third attempt ( the one that really counts- a real time trial) really took the best of it he was really exhausted, he finished the track within 60 second, rob and peter won this challenge, we came third. We got our next lead note which directed us to the Archery range, a short ride from the BMX time trial track. I missed the instruction on how to use the bow since I went to the rest room, and I was the nominated team member to do this challenge since Yuval was exhausted from the last challenge. Truly I was very good at this I even burst the balloon that was in the middle bull’s eye; however I burst it at the wrong time, which was after the point’s competition, so we came last in the points tally on this challenge. But it was fun, and I had a really good feeling about the whole day. We went on the bikes again and paddled to the train station parked the bikes and went on the train, after that we needed to catch a taxi to the Olympic white water rafting track- I didn’t see this coming!!!!!
Even at the beginning (although it was after long safety check, and very long and clear instructions) Yuval and I jumped into our canoe and lost control. How do you direct this thing? How do you go forward with it? How you not falling off? I don’t think white water rafting is our specialty. So, who will be the first team to go on the track? The teams have decided on paper, scissor, and stone tournament to make that decision, I lost so w had to get out there first. This is what people mean when they say ‘you have to jump into the cold water’ , we had to leave all our fears and worries on the dry surface and just do it, off we go. The instructors were really nice and they gave us a really good sense of security and “no worries” feeling. We’ve done well in the first part , I was at the front and I paddled really strong and hard, Yuval was at the back and he was screaming common!! Push it! Paddle, paddle! Harder! Faster! Even the instructor was impressed and then bam, we just toppled over. The water pulled us in, we tried to linger around some rocks and get close to the outside walls of the track but the stream was very powerful, eventually I notice that there is a rope behind me that I need to grab, I caught it but I could not move, the instructor looked at like he expect me to do something, but the water were so cold I couldn’t move. In this contest w came second or third I think. When finished we got our next challenge which is to get to Bondi Beach and build a sand pyramid. That was fun, but I think we have invested in it too much time and effort, since we were late to the bus that took us to the next point, we have arrived to the last pit stop for the day very late after the rest of the teams but the view from there was so special and cool, than they took us to the most famous fish and chips restaurant in Australia on Watson bay, and then back to the hotel, sleep time.