FRIDAY 19th OCTOBER - TUMUT TO CANBERRA

OV1 - Ben & Julian's car was tagged - we know nothing !!!!

Mon & Josie's car fared far  much worse though -  

Does this mean Darren is guilty of something?

 

The girls of esCarpade - a brave band of girls throwing their support into fundraising for Camp Quality.

Such spectacular views driving out of Tumut.

 The morning fun stop by the officials was a "Love In" - free hugs and kisses for all.

Darren took the opportunity to get friendly with Ben .

 And Josie ...

 And Monika

After the hugs and fun of the morning break it was on to Jugiong for lunch .

The trip to Canberra presented some challenging roads , rough , winding and hilly.

 We made it - Team Afro at the rally point with all the other cars getting ready to parade  into Canberra

 

 

 esCarpade at Old Parliament House.

 

 6 bands - Darren's complete set of passed breath tests.

Trina's best friend Claire came with her children to see esCarpade arrive in Canberra. A great ending for esCarpade for Trina .

In true esCarpade style water was flying everywhere....

Darren got Trina , as the following photos show .

 Once the fun and games were over , we had half an hour to find our accomadation , get tidy and head back to Old Prliament House for dinnerat 6.30pm sharp. We were gettingreally good at co-ordinating quick changes of clothes ( maybe a super heros theme next year?) . 

We were not too late , even beating the officials to dinner . Graham arrived in his purple people eater costume , much to his team mate Tony's horror. 

Afro Rocket looking good before dinner .

A quick team selfie .

 

 Team Afro received their fundraising award - for $21,431.25 - awesome effort.

The final  esCarpade total - that means so many more children can be helped throughout their cancer journey. 

Ben , a CQ camper from Canberra spoke about his cancer journey which started on his 11th birthday . His journey had many ups and downs , but through out all Ben wanted to do was get back out on the footy field.  His doctors were not going to give any hope of footy again , but the final part to Ben's story is that he has been selected in the ACT Brumbies Junior Squad.

Ben reminded us thathaving hope and determination will get you where you want to be.

It was a great night , celebrating the journey from Newcxastle , reliving the stories and talking of 2013 plans. 

We went back to our apartment to pack for the last time and figure out which way to head home. We still couldn't decide which way to go , so the paln was to get to the T -section and decide then - left Newell Highway , right Pacific Highway ......

It had been an awesome week , full of laughs, challenges , heated moments , but mostly fun . 

Can't wait until next year - rumor has it esCarpade is coming to Queensland -  we'll see about that , but one thing is for sure TEAM AFRO will be there - maybe in disguise!!!!!