French anthem and the aftermath

On saturday morning we had some free time to do some souvenier shopping at the local Tesco and then it was time to get ready for the closing ceremony. We had lunch at the hotel and then went to the airfield where was a small airshow, and the prize giving ceremony. Have to say, now I definately know how the french anthem sounds like... heard it I think five times... The results of the contest are in Civa-Results, but I have to say, there are some VERY good pilots in France. Wonder why... But anyway, congratulations to the winners!

before the closing ceremony and prize givings, there was a small airshow, mainly it was the winners of the contest flying. After the ceremony, there was very nice dinner with several local delicaties and of course some wine and beer. Later in the evening there was a simulated dog fight, which was rather cool! They also used pyrotechnics there, and I think I got one or two nice photos of the event.

Sunday was a travelling day, and we started at 8 am from the hotel. PIK was great to give us a lift again to Vienna and after one change in Frankfurt, total of about 4 hours in an airplanes and 4 hours in a bus I was finally home almost at midnight...

Today (monday) I slept late (9.30 or so) and it has mostly gone by by doing laundry, and later on the afternoon I got a hell of a case (if you don't mind the expression, sorry for that) of  migrane headache again, that took me even to the hospital. I almost knew to expect it, it was the first (and last) day of my vacation and I didn't have ANYTHING to do or go officially :D
Well, after few hours in a hospital I am as good as new, and ready to go to work tomorrow.  I guess there are about million things waiting for me, and before that I still need to go through some photos from Dubnica...
So good night for now ;)

Mission accomplished.

Today we finnished the 2nd unknown program. Finally. Everyone started to get restless, it was really hard to concentrate from time to time but we pulled it off. 2870something marks given by each judge in this competition. That makes 213 flights all together. Including the warmups. Or not, I am not quite sure, but close anyway! That is a lot for a first timer. Especially when we did not have writers, or scraibs, so I had to do that also as an assistant. Reading the notes and writing down the marks at the same time, is quite challenging. And even more if you have to check the rolls at the same time, see what is going on in the sky... So basicly, multitasking.

Next weekend I will be judging myself, in glider nationals in Finland, which will be very interesting for me. It is a bit different, not so fast tempo flying and the rules and judging is a bit different than the power contest, so maybe next week I'll take the bus to work and study the glider rules before the competition.

I have to say, even I have spent an amazing summer, with two big competitions, it is good to get back home for a change. Honestly, I am a bit homesick. Only thing not so appealing, is the amount of laundry to do and on tuesday I have to go back to work. The one they are paying me for ;) And next weekend the nationals in Kauhava, will be great seeing all the friends and "my team from Poland" again. I have missed my friends in Kauhava (and in Pori of course)! Really looking forward to that, so in a way it is an easy way out, back to normal life.

Tomorrow we will have morning off, so it is time for some shopping, I need to get something to the kid at home and then we'll have an airshow, the closing ceremony, some fireworks was also promised and the closing dinner. And I definately hope that the thunderstorm we had this late evening will not come back for tomorrow.