VALLEY HEIGHTS!!!!!!
Here we are: David (promoted to Girl for the day), Heidi, Bec (front), Marie and Jacinta GO VALLEY GIRLS, GO!
See more photos from the day here
And to think we nearly didn't enter at all. The judges wanted to give it a miss because some presentation was going to be starting or something. When they wouldn't just award us first place, we decided we'd do the Emergency drill after all.
The emergency drill is done when a crew is involved in an over-run situation (the fire is going to come over the top of you). Three beeps of the horn/siren/whistle means drop everything and run back to the truck. We had to get off the fuel - jerry cans, drip torches and chainsaw fuel - and put it away from the truck, grab the First Aid box and climb in the truck. Inside we had to put on our flash hoods and get down as low as possible covered up in blankets. Meanwhile the driver, Dave in this case, is radioing that we're in trouble and calling for help and ambulances (comforting innit!) and he puts on the sprays outside the truck. We did it in 2 minutes 30-odd seconds.
Steve had announced early in the morning that he'd take for a drink for any team that won an award. I think at the time he thought he was fairly safe and the money would be staying in his pocket. We did end up later in the evening at the Lapstone Hotel for dinner and a drink too.
I didn't know we were going to the Championships at all. I knew the boys were going, but I'd turned up at the station expecting to have just another ordinary training day. Ended up going to the Championships and taking part in three events.
We had a great day. It was a beautiful sunny morning and although we had torrents of rain and thunder in the middle of the day when we all huddled under our little shelter, the sun came out again and we had a game of cricket, puddled about in the mud and had lunch.
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