From a practice perspective since I'm still in a travel fog

We're here!! The flights, other than being incredibly long, and a short stop at Midway that was not on our agenda but apparently it was for the flight's agenda.... we are here :)

Once we arrived at the hotel and checked in we had to rush to change and off to practice. We took the train to Penrith where the races are, the local folks that we've met so far have been nice and very supportive.

From the train station we took cabs to the race site and folks have found a some comedy in the fact that our "English" and their "English" is different(see Kris' top five post).

Practice was interesting.... let's stick 20 half asleep people in a boat, add wind and some rough water and see what happens... we'll we did ok, the first few minutes were a quick introduction to our gals joining us from California, Portland and Iowa. After we all meshed, the boat felt great, we have some very strong women in our boat. It's chilly and did I mention windy?? at the foot of the mountains. So I was completely soaked in less than in minute out there and burrrr!!

We have practice again today, hoping it's less windy, and wee bit warmer.

More soon!