Wednesday 4th July 2007

Ok people we had no internet on the ship what so ever and during the time we were on land we were way way way too tired to actually do any work so please forgive us all for our laziness. just read the dates and it will tell you what we did on each day.

<---(This is the view from the plane as we arrived in Tromso)

So Wednesday the 4th July, I (kim) got up relatively early made sure that everything was packed and ready to go to Heathrow, I got there at about 10am and surprise surprise Ed and Craig were already there. So we checked in and then went to meet the other teams, I think everyone was nervous about meeting each other but it turned out fine. We just chatted and talked about what we did to win.

Then we got put into our travel groups where I was put with 4 other girls, Fiona, Jade, Kerry and Jess. Our teacher person was called Emily she was cool lol. We then got given our Edge jackets they were lush, girls had light blue and guys had navy blue, but i secretly stole Richard's dark blue one. It took a while for us to all get through security, then we had about an hour to do what ever we wanted. So while Ed and Craig went to the toilet I talked to Hallam who was from another team, we had both forgotten our toothbrushes and then went shopping for one.

We went and met up with everyone else and then discovered our flight was delayed so about an hour and a half extra later we boarded the flight.

We arrived at Oslo it was a bit chaotic, we had lunch which was really yummy, then went and boarded our next flight from Oslo to Tromso, i was next to Ed and Craig again but oh well. The flight was good as we were landing in Tromso we flew right over mountains which was great the view was fabulous. We had to wait at Tromso for about 2 hours and it was 11pm and still the sun was shinning brightly.

We arrived in Longyearbyen at about 2am we got on the coach and went to the hostel that we were staying at, it was a nice enough place to stay in. I shared with Fiona and Jade, Ed and Craig shared with Mark.

It was rather difficult getting to sleep because it was so light but we managed it. Day One down only nine more to go!