Dragonboating finals

The last day of dragonboating started with a very early race time and a very tired dragonboating team. We dragged our butts up the race track and had a decent time (2min20sec), however we came in second place, which meant we didn't go to the finals, rather to the consolation round. We weren't terribly upset about it, because we'd had a great weekend so far. For our last race of the day, we really put it to the other teams and took our race to the maximum, having our best race of the weekend. However, we we got our time, we were shocked to see it was 2 min 43 seconds! Way slower! We didn't feel very slow! We were well ahead of the other two boats for most of the race. We decided the current must have been much stronger, but we ended up finding out later that they actually made the course 30 yards longer for the afternoon races! Here are some pictures from our last races:After our race we all went to the beer gardens for a team drink and signed our team flag. We're going to put that up in the department.
We didn't end up with any medals after all (there we no medals for second place of the Novice Cup) but we did enter the 'Best Cheer' competition and got up front to practice our cheer for everyone at the awards ceremony. See below:We didn't win this competition either - the team that did win had both Chinese and African cheers incorporated and was far fancier than ours. But overall we had a really great weekend and it was a great experience for us all. Plus, it really did a lot to build friendships between people in our department. That sounds cheesy, I know, but it's true and I've really enjoyed it!