Around the World in Seven Weeks [Tuesday, August 20, 2013]

[sith_happened]

"Well, this is the seventh week," Anakin said, "which means this is your last trip through a portal for a while."

Some of the students might be a little grateful for that, a thought Ben had also had, judging from the bemused look on his face. "So today we'll go to Europe. Something nice and easy in Finland! You don't even have to eat something weird!"

Wasn't that nice of them, class? So nice!

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Detour: Swamp This or Swamp That

[sith_happened]

Both options are methods by which Finnish athletes keep themselves in shape during the warmer months Rly. Don't confirm with Corrie. In Swamp This, you have to put a pair of cross country skis and trudge through a 1 mile course in a muddy field. It's great for the legs.

In Swamp That, you have to take an obstacle course through the same bog. You needed to crawl, climb and carry a Finnish Olympic athlete (none of them tiny and light) during parts of the course, and proceed to the finish line without dropping said athlete to get the next clue.

Re: Detour: Swamp This or Swamp That

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Theo didn't know why but he chose to ski through the mud. It didn't sound that hard and he was a skateboarder so he figured he could do it.

And then he got stuck in the mud. And he got stuck good to the point where he had to unhook himself from the skis, rip them out of the mud and then put them back on to get going again.

Needless to say, he was way behind by the time he finished.

Re: Detour: Swamp This or Swamp That

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Originally, Kathy had thought to take the obstacle course. Upon seeing the athletes she was going to have to carry, however, she immediately "Nope!"'d and strapped herself into the cross country skis.

She had no idea how to cross country, but she could walk and her light frame kept her from sinking too far into the mud.

She gave Theo a sheepish wave as she passed him, but kept going.