Day 11 - Party... Rona 2 Style

Day 11

Today started out of sorts with a late wakeup call at 9am, a nice change to the usual 6am rise. Work then started immediately on cleaning the decks before a light brunch; consisting of waffles, fresh fruit and porridge, was served at 11am – Banged out by white watch, who were on their usual top form. With everyone a bit more awake, thoughts turned to the crew sports teams. Rona entered teams for basketball and football as well as tug of war. It seems that sport is not our strong point as we sadly just missed out on winning the sports, however this is mainly due to Ben W impaling his face on Swedish football player’s head, resulting in what has been described as ‘pain and lots of mess’ (ice was administered and he is now fine). A lack of substitutes at this point meant that we lost our opener 4-0, however, numbers were soon made up by the employment of some friendly Mexicans who also happened to turn up.

                During the day we also showed many members of the public around Rona and explained all about the project, most seemed very surprised that 23 people could fit into such a small space! As the crew retuned from the battlegrounds (read sports fields), White watch continued to keep morale high as they prepared Thai Chicken Curry, received happily by all the crew, as per. Thoughts then turned to the crew party, involving the production of various punches and ice coolers, by the bucketful. The party was a huge success with over 250 people arriving, everyone making new friends and taking part in games such a beer bobbing (credit goes to Charlie for coming up with this one, turns out the Russians were very good at this.) This continued long into the night (and following morning, much to our neighbours’ delight) before winding down, and the crew all grabbing a few hours of much needed sleep … (by which we mean crashing into any empty bunks).