Day Six Hundred and Fifty Eight

Friday

And so TW Melbourne got underway, however before that I was out on the road by 6.25am and off to ensure Checkpoint 2 was up and running. It was very dark and cold when we arrived to relieve a very pleased to see us security guard. He had had to chase off kangaroos during the night, not a happy chap.

Fired up the generator for power and light and to get the urn on for a cuppa. Soon enough the corporate volunteers started to arrive and we got them up and running. We waited around until first few teams had passed through after 10am and then headed to our next build.


We arrived at Checkpoint 6 and started the bump in there. This is at a primary school and the lovely little children were not backwards in coming forwards and investigating what we were up to, some were even picking up kit and walking away with it, oh what fun.

Did lots of stuff including marking out where cars need to get in/out of site and plumbing in water stations, cabling check in/out desks etc.

Once everything was set to go we headed to the finish to help out with any jobs there.

Went out for dinne rin Warburton with afew of the team here

http://www.wildthymecafe.communityguide.com.au/

Finally headed off to what I thought was bed number 3 only to find that due to a mess up in scheduling I was not to stay there. After some frantic calls/driving around to get signal I finally found my lower bunk bed in a room with four other staff. They preceded to snore all night too...