Well Egypt was about as much fun as a poke in the eye, but thats ok, there are still many weird and wonderful places to visit on our challenge.
Day 11 sees us reach the treacherous middle east, and we are all thouroughly looking forward to heading around this part of the world. More troubles for us on Day 9 as Smshr O'D lost our compass! Yes Bree, you are correct, we will never forgive you. Luckily the TBA team known as the Walking Sticks - maybe closer to the Walking 'Stiffs' by the look of them....anyway, they had a spare compass that they got from a Coco Pops box that they graciously gave to us as they swooned on past...apparently they had been playing possum for a while, letting all teams go past them then go on a power trip and zoom right past. Only problem was it cost us two of our blankets, so Tezza and Mezza were forced to sleep in the one sleeping bag until we got to the next destination. So we are now back on track, with lots to look forward to, hopefully we can catch up with the leaders at some stage, its all about endurance after all, we are waiting for some teams to lose interest... Plus we now have a decent reason to destroy the competition of the Walking Stiffs.
We also caught a glimpse of some tenacious turtles as we made our way out of Africa, they were somewhat of a motley crue, however it definitely gave us a hurry on when we saw them. Apparently they can be quite ruthless when they are wearing grumpy pants...
Either way, we forge ahead into the unknown, ready to knock down any competition we come across, our aim? Top 100 by next month.
Update: Currently 569th place out of 3369 teams, Daily average per person: 9675 steps
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Luckily, Marcus, being the gentleman that he is, offered his blanket and all his warm clothes to Tezza and Mezza. He asked for nothing in return except their happiness. To his credit, Mezza and Tezza did give him the friendly smile that he so desperately missed as a result of living in no-man's land: Ringwood.
And so the rivalry begins between the Strawberry Pigeons and the Tenacious Turtles, (or was there ever a doubt there would be rivalry?, To quote a fellow Turtle - "Sounds to me like it's pigeon pie time, cause I got me grumpy pants on."
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