Day 4 At The Pool & The After Party

Day 4 at the pool was pretty chilled because the only finals are held in the afternoon and most competitors have completed their events and are all in the mood to party more than anything else. We saw another two world records being broken today in both the mens and womens no fins finals, it was incredibly exciting and the crowd almost brought down the rooftop. This is such a fun sport I might just have to give it a go when I find the money.

The Flying Baroness's Slapping Six Packs In Slovenia Awards today are: Gold - Denmark, Silver - Finland (get it? FIN LAND??) Bronze - Greece

The After Party
I've been fantacising about this after party for a long time, and I was definitely not disappointed.

Due to intensive training programs, most of these people haven't had a drop of alcohol for months so you can imagine how keen they are to catch up with the rest of the world. It pretty much all started at the end of the Women's B finals when our English lass Liv was handed a red card (disqualification) in the form of a bottle of guiness dangled at the end of a fishing rod handled by a couple of Finnish boys. She took a drink from the pool and completed her "I'm OK" surface protocol. Very classy.

A note on the wacky Finnish while I'm on the subject. I think too much ice and ocean make their brain cells freeze. They come up with funny competitive sports like underwater rugby, spare fishing (by size, weight and species), underwater ice hockey, and underwater poker. Over the course of the week I met about 6 of them all with world titles in the above events.

Anyway so Kathryn and Braedon hosted a very nostalgic university dorm style pre-party in the room straight after the finals, firstly attended only by the Kiwi and Aussie contingent but as you know the sort of noise our lot makes just attracts the entire building. Managed to polish off four 2 litre bottles of special Slovenian wine.


The coaches made sure we were on time for the medal presentation ceremony held right in the middle of the Lent Festival stage. The Japanese kindly offered their team Dominatrix to present the medals - she's kinda cool, she does splits while standing on her head when ever she's in a good mood. Heres a pic of me also with their other team mascot - The Sunshine Suit Man.

Rest of the evening was a bit of a blur really, I remember being wisked off to some sort of ski lodge ?? place on a bus for all you can drink horrid wine and all you can eat unidentifyable black and brown stuff. The debauchery peaked when the athletes all started swapping shirts (I wish I wasn't so drunk otherwise I could have given out more of Slapping Six Pack awards for the evening...) and I belive Kathryn ended up with about three, and one each for me and Braedon. The party continued back into town in this old school brick basement which looked like it was a wine cellar. We seem to be sharing the afterparties with lots of local wedding goers, given that it was the 7th of the 7th 2007. Good times.