Briefing in Ottawa

It has been a long day! I only got 4 hours shut eye last night, so I ready for my bed. I had a surprise send of today from the Jamie G Trust Committee. Having spent too long packing, repacking and weighing bags upstairs, I rushed into the kitchen saying ” OK lets get going”  only to be greeted by Jacqui, Ivan, Tommy, Liz, Paul, Anjela and Dave! Already emotional this started to tip me over the edge – what a lovely send of!

John and Annie took me to the airport. More emmotional farewells! The kids had all written me a lovely card & Annie had sorted out some photos – more sniffles.

Unfortunately The Finnish Team have dropped out, so we are now down to two teams of three! It is very sad to loose Jari and Tero at such at late stage (5 days before the event), and bad news that now, not only am I the oldest lady doing the race, but the oldest person (probably by 10 years)!

We had a good flight to Ottawa, and have a night of comfort in the Lord Elgin Hotel! We have packed all our food bags up, and have an early start tomorrow. We take a small jet to the Baffin Islands, then a prop plane to Resolute Bay (which will probably stop of at least once at a village on the way!). The final plane will be half cargo and half passenger plane.

Every day will be an adventure now. But for tonight I am going to have a hot shower, and curl up in my nice large hotel bed!

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