Christmas time, blistered toes and wine

Christmas is over and another 4 days of the BoardFree xmas break is left. I've not been with everyone for Christmas so i hope everyone has had a good time!
I went to a family friends for xmas and it was bliss. I don't recall ever having eaten that much nor drinking that much in my entire life! They're going to have to roll me back to Sydney like that blueberry girl off Charlie and the Chocolate factory!
This is the third xmas without my mum and being around such a loving family made me a little sad but overall i appreciated everything that's happened to me. Without it, i wouldn't be me. And i most certainly wouldn't be in Australia enjoying fine oysters and champagne sitting on a verrandah overlooking a lake!!!! it's a tough life i hear you say?! Tell me about it!

We've got just under a month to go before we reach Brisbane. It's a strange feeling to think we're finally going to get there, especially now that the world record has been broken.
Now all we need are the donations to start rolling in. Fingers crossed.
I've said to many people that i think that a fair few people are waiting to see if Dave actually makes it. It's like any sponsored event, you want to see the person succeed before you hand your money over, which is fair enough but come on, he's made it this far, there's no way he's giving up now.

I have to say i've thoroughly enjoyed our new and larger team. Having Laura here takes strain off Becki and Bev with fundraising and she's got everlasting stashes of energy hidden somewhere! She's always offerring to help out with everything.
Pete is just wonderful. He's exceptionally mature, level headed and wise! But that doesn't stop him from getting his botty out at the 4000km mark for our entertainment! I think that Dim is getting a bit home sick so it's good that they've got each other to help with filming, directing and production etc!

I think out of everybody Si and Bev are getting upset/worried that BoardFree Oz is coming to an end. Mind you, Simon has been getting upset about it since September! Saying how it's nearly January! Daft monkey!

I can't tell with Dave, in that, he's a very difficult person to read and doesn't give much away the majority of the time.

The closer it gets to going home the more you miss it, or at least that's what it feels like. And i'm glad to be meeting up with the team again after xmas but my goodness am i going to miss the big double bed, cups of tea, champagne for breakfast in a morning?! Nope. It's best that i go now though because i don't want to get too used to it! The life of luxury.


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