GO KARTING/Swimming

Today was a mighty tiring day for all the Weiss family and myself.  We kicked it off really early as the sun rose whilst we were still at the Explorer camp. Of course we look like a dogs breakfast due to the  "No Sleeping until 3 am" rule. But with all the hype from yesterday, the adventures of the UK still awaited us for the day. Today we had the last swimming lesson of the year at midday for half an hour, then an intense GO KARTING session in the afternoon.

Of course the swimming was the hardest thing to get motivated for when you're half dead. But once I jumped in with Tom and Sam, I was fit as a whistle and ready to go. Since it  was the last lesson of the year it was more of a muck-up session. So after the warm up there was a race to see who could coil their rope and throw it to the other side of the pool fastest in 3 attempts. In my second time ever doing it I improved to reach and tie with first position, against people who have trained for months. Has a lot to say about the Brits life saving capabilities :)
But before you could say drowning, the 1/2 hour lesson was up and it was time to get out of the pool.

Once we dried up and got changed we all quickly dashed home for a bit of R&R for an hour or so before the big race in the afternoon. Unfortunately since he was too young and short, Joseph was unable to participate in Go Karting. But we still brought him along to be our photographer for the day.

We arrived at the karting area pumped and ready for some high paced action. We suited up and  started out pretending like we were going to rob a bank with our balaclavas on.

Once we got all our gear on the engines started to rev and off we went. Lap after lap we were all neck and neck. It all went by in a flash. Before we knew it, our 25 laps were up. Since we were quite the competitive family we were all desperate to see who won. The results finally printed, and I came a relatively close 3rd, with Tom taking the top spot. But in the long run it was all for a bit of wonderful cheeky banter which left a smile on my face for the afternoon.