The Day after scrutineering

Today is beautiful, warm, sunny with a nice breeze.  Much nicer than I expected the heat to be!

Rick was at scrutineering until close to 9pm last night!  His GPS/sat phone computer wasn´t working and that´s a must have in order to do the race.  They had to work on that for some time and then he finally made it through … JUST.  They started to tell him it was too late to finish and he would have to come back today but, as usual, Rick managed to negotiate the completion last night.  Then he lost the team (who has our camera´s and most important … a bottle of wine!) and had to take a taxi back to the hotel and leave our car at the team house … which isn´t all that close! 

This morning we were headed for Florida Street (which is a big pedestrian area) and landed upon an amazing park that will be Cooper’s and my home until we had back to Vancouver.  It has a great playground for little people and lots of green space.  So we spent some time there and Cooper and Rick enjoyed the swings and slide.  This is a great city for the little ones …

Tonight we are heading back to the team house for Rick to do his final gear check and load his boxes into the trucks.  We also have a dinner where there will be lots of drivers and media so it should be interesting.  It seems as though lots of people want to talk to this crazy Canadian Dakar rookie!

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