amazing race :D

amazing race 2010. what can i say? well, in my opinion it wasnt as good as last year's amazing race, but still fun nonetheless (Y)

SO this year's team team S.L.U.T consisted of duc, paul, kon, matt and myself :D i have to say, our team was quite good, ran about 85% of the whole race, extremely tired at the end though D:

so a description of our team's "adventure":
we started off at church, we were one of the first teams out, but we had to wait for a train at the station anyway, so we kinda ran for no reason, but ohwell. anyway, to start off, we were given 2 tasks, a main task and a divert task. The divert was just something that we had to do, but we could do whenever - and it was to go to huntingdale station, edward st reserve to get a balloon. We decided to do it first, to get it out of the way, and about half the teams thought the same thing, so at huntingdale, half the teams ran off, while the others stayed and continued to the city. At huntingdale, i was the first person out the station, and had to pick one way to go - i picked left, and then a whole bunch of other teams followed, while others went the other way. When we realised that the place we went to didnt look right, we ditched all the teams that followed us, and went back around, then saw joash's team looking at a strangers melway, so we followed them, and found the checkpoint. turns out we had to carry the balloon the whole race, so when we got back to huntingdale station we de-flated it, and put it in our bag (which i carried the whole way >_>)

after that, we got back to the main tasks, and we had to find this statue, it was at docklands, so we got off at southern cross, along with joash's team, and krystin's team. Erol's team already got the balloon and took a train before us, so they were already ahead D: so we get to docklands right after joash's team, and the clue tells us to find the "public purse. We had no idea what that was, so we decided to ask people. Big mistake. The people we asked, all thought it was a metaphor for the old treasury building, and it makes sense, so we went all the way to the city museum, which was completely wrong. We had to find out what happened in 2001 to a building next to the "public purse" and we thought it was some federation thing. Once we had our "answer" we had to tell a guy waiting at the strand arcade, which was in the middle of the city >_> turns out, the "public purse" was literally a purse, and the building was the GPO and the event was a fire there. >_> so we got that completely wrong, which set us back 1 and a half hours, which basically put us in last place.

We then had to go to southbank, when we got there, we were last, and erol's team leaves just as we get there >_> the task at southbank was a road block, so we could only send one person, so we sent duc (Y) duc came back pretty fast, but then we still had to wait an hour, cos it counts as a lunch break, before we can leave again. LUCKILY, serene's team cheated at the roadblock, so they leave after us, which doesn't make us last (: It really sucked watching all the teams leave, while we have to sit there ):

Once we were allowed to leave southbank, we had to find one of two people. One was at the arts precinct, the other was at the shrine of remembrance, we couldn't find the person at the arts precinct after 10 mins, so we went to the shrine of remembrance to find miss ross. We spent about 20 mins looking with all the other teams, turns out she had her back to the shrine with a hoody on so no-one could find her >_> The next clue was to go to NGV - the national gallery of victoria. We took a tram to the shrine and a tram back, so we caught up to the teams that were lagging behind (Y) at the NGV, was another roadblock, so we sent duc AGAIN. haha, but duc came out with all these other people aswell, so werent really ahead. Last clue was to go back to clayton, so we ran to flinders, but had to wait 20 mins for a train. ): Alot of teams were already ahead so we were already worried we wouldnt beat thomas's team ): also since when they left at southbank, hansol and marvin were being cocky for being ahead of us D:

Ok so our train gets to hungtingdale, and all the others that hadn't done the divert, get on the train, we were hoping thomas's team was on the train, so we still had a chance to beat them, but at this time, we knew we already to lost to erol's team. So at clayton, you would just see a whole mass of asians run off the train towards the church, and once we were there, we had to put in order these pictures, of where we went. They were annoying to see, but we mangaed, and we ended up coming 18th. Erol's team came 2nd, krystin's team came 9th but thomas's team was nowhere to be seem :D They ended up coming 21st, which is 3rd last, because they couldn't find the balloon (Y) so im still satisfied :D

wait until next year, we'll win for sure.

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