Tag: xdream

.. where Ikea ends up watching xdream in Valgehobusemäe

Hello there! It’s me, Ikea!

guess what. on Friday, i was looking thru some fun giraffe stuff for my #funfriday collection, resting from holidays AND eating apples when my friend Sipsik asked if i was doing anything fun on Saturday. Normally i would have said “i’m doing very important stuff”, like “sunbathing” or “playing hide-and-seek with Angel”, but i was just in the middle of learning some Judo with my friend Lotte. “So, perhaps u would like to go and check how your team is doing at the xdream?” of course, i agreed right away. i like watching sport a lot. and xdream is quite fun too – lot’s of running! so, i went to this place called Valgehobusemäe, to support my team, ikeathegiraffe.com. here’s my team canoeing:

unfortunately, i did not get to see too many teams this time, as not everyone started together. so instead i mostly saw the same people, over and over, hehe! so i now remember some faces even. although giraffes, like me, are not gr8 with memory, u know. luckily i have fotografs. here’s a fotograf from this point that i found just a little bit off the main track:

the most fun part was this RMK special task, where you had to figure out the names of different animals. so there were seven different ones:

the gr8 thing about this special task was that i got to participate, as u can see. so people had to figure out seven animals. i can already tell u that number seven was giraffe!! but the other numbers were like Lynx and Moose among other things. can u guess which is which? let me know in comments!

there were, of course lot more fotografs that i took. they are mostly from my team, ikeathegiraffe.com, i’m afraid. but that’s good news because they got 12th place in Valgehobusemäe (White Horse Hill) and 11th in total. which is gr8 because i got to be on stage, jei! lots of fun, because i got to shake hands with about 40 people, hehe! if i get hold of a link to a fotograf, i will update this post! until then, have fun and let me know about the animal guessing ;)

.. where Ikea is watching xdream in Orissaare

Hello there! It’s me, Ikea!

guess what! last weekend went by really fast! because i was in Orissaare and Muhu watching the xdream, u know. I have been to xdream before, but not for the night event. so, it was the night event this time! and, best news is that i had my own team, ikeathegiraffe.com also taking part. so, i took LOTS of fotografs (because there were lots of teams). so, i have tried to make a summary here:

this is my team, the ikeathegiraffe.com – Riivo, Märt, Sander and me, Ikea.

as it was the night event, it was at night. giraffes are not so good at seeing in the night, so luckily we had some faster teams with gps tracking. here’s me following my team and others in the canoeing stage.

unfortunately, my team liked canoeing so much that they spent pretty much all night doing so. and i fell asleep. the good thing is that i woke up just in time to see the sunrise, jei! however, i have to tell u that i did not have the time to sunbathe..

instead, we took a looooooong walk in the sea to visit some islets. here’s me on top of the tower on the islet. this tower is a lighthouse of some sort, as u can see. but as it was already morning, no light was on and it was not even a house. just tower.

the tower was very good for observing the teams that tried to sneak by and get to the check point (the tower), but i noticed them from far away, hehe!

and here, it is my team ikeathegiraffe.com, very much alive after almost 11 hours or so. happy times! after small walk around the islet (and i can secretly tell u – some geocaching, hehe) it was time to take the watery walk back and get to the finish area for some special tasks and finish.

here’s the first special task – a team shot-put with some running for those who did not do well. i prefer running myself, if u ask me.

and here’s the instructions for the second special taks – the megaladder!

here’s the blue team showing how it is done properly.

and here – it’s the ladies team who are stuck in the trees i’m afraid..!

and also, our team contemplating their moves after about 14 hours of running and other things. it’s a lot of running! i would not like to be climbing ANY ladders after that, not even the megaladder although it looks fun!
and after that – the finish. my team ikeathegiraffe.com did it very well, they used pretty much all the time that was available. it seems to me that they were the last team that did not have any penalties to complete the whole race, jei! u can track the first 11 hours of the race on this page here (select ikeathegiraffe.com and then click view route at the bottom. they did not drown, it’s just that the battery died :).

so that’s it in a nutshell! lots of fun don’t you think? but this is not all. as i told u, i took lots of fotografs. so i have uploaded them to my picasa. in fact there are two folders. folder number one has the best shots that i got, about 30 with some comments,hehe! and then, there is another folder for all the teams that are looking for themselves :D there’s more than 400 fotografs inside!! take a look and have fun! feel feel to share the links with friends and let me know which fotografs u like the best! cu l8r!