Saturday, 14 April 2007

Easter Tourney - Dunedin 2007

Phew, notch down another Easter Tourney - the second for my Auckland based team. Another awesome experience!

Firstly, big thanks to my uncle for lending me his Van ('Gina') ensuring our team had a much needed travel method between the venues. Although it's a seven seater we discovered that 13 was well within its capabilities.

As expected, we endured a hefty dose of touch - 10 games all up, with five on the Sunday. I'm real proud of the team as we really seemed to play above our weight in some of the games! We played my old mates (and eventual winners) Canterbury, four times - two each for mixed & mens, in both the round-robin and then semi finals - just unfortunate we came second each time.

We were doing unexpectedly well in some of the round robin play until most of the guys in our team decided to cramp up (note: I was not one of them).
Calf/hamstring cramp was the most popular, but Dan was different - and ended up with 'butt cramp'. Well it certainly provided a lot of laughs, as well as the following video (Jules doing her best to ease his pain):



Some of us also played Dodgeball which was wicked. Although I'm very glad we never had to play the scary Wellington teams - one of their guys knocked someone out :O
It would have been cool to face off against my Sis though - ah well, next time.

On top of all the sport, we partied hard, had some fun at the expense of sleeping team-mates, and glammed up for the ball...
And of course, I also got to catch up with my folks while I was down.

Unfortunately I'm a bit light on photos, dunno what happened there, just wasn't in a snappy happy mood I guess.
However, thanks to a few sources, I have managed to accumulate some snaps which you can view in my new Picassa Web Album:
Easter Tourney 2007

There's a catch in that you will need a Google account if you don't have one already. But if you don't, getting one isn't such a bad thing anyway...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

haha what a crack up video
send me the hard copy file
hehe