Kid's hash début

Boel has been telling me it's about time Oliver went to the kid's hash. We attempted to go a few times in the past but we hadn't made it until today. This afternoon Oliver had a nice early afternoon nap so Matthew took him right into the jungle!

Here are my boys ready to leave the house (Oliver insisted on wearing the helmet - well you never know what you might encounter in the jungle...)



Unfortunately I didn't get to go with the boys - I stayed home with Luca. But Oliver was lucky to have Linnea to help him out and Boel to take photos for him (Thank you so much Boel!).

According to Matthew as soon as Oliver got to the site he didn't want to walk by himself and wanted to be held by his daddy. And it continued all the way though the jungle... sigh...

Brave? boys going into the jungle!



This way Oliver - I got you (Linnea)



Not liking this!



Crossing the river...



Boel and Oliver



Matthew told me he cheered up just before they had to leave the site. In the end he was smiling and running around so it was a success!?

Hash Founders Day 2010

Last night was the annual Founders Day. This year's theme was Wild Wild West.  Prior to the party we all went into the jungle as we do on Tuesdays and did a short run.



A cow girl in the jungle.



This is me!

It was a very pleasant run. Reasonably short but you felt you had a bit of exercise (even walking...).

The real fun started after heading home for a quick shower and change - I changed into my American Indian outfit. When I came downstairs my amah was so impressed, she just said "Pocahontas".



It was just amazing how much effort they put into preparing this party. The site was decorated fabulously, they organised a game, made a bar, even to the details on the dinner tables and all!





Boel the Indian



Deputy sheriff



Some were put in jail





Kelly - Jessie the cowgirl



So much food! and it was delicious!

During the party there was an award giving. To our surprise Boel, Nicole and I won the Cultural Award 2010! for our Japanese hash we did back in June. Yeah!



It was certainly another great night. On on!

Water water water....

Tonights hash was at Jalan Dadap. It is the furthest hash site we can go plus we got caught in the traffic so it took us almost 45 min to get there. Luckily we were there just on time.

Since I had my eye surgery 3 weeks ago this was the first hash I have done. My eyes are much better and it felt great to get out and be in the jungle again. I never run/walk at this site but heard it would be a very jungly and pretty run. I was going to walk to the first check and come back but ended up doing the whole run - it was just very nice so I kept walking. It wasn't hilly like some of the runs but... we had to cross so many streams! My shoes were soaked after only 5 min into the run!

I truly enjoyed tonight's run. I am happy to be able to see and exercise again!



Crossing a stream



Nice pond



Long waterfall behind Tina (Tonight was her last hash here in Brunei...)

Hash Result

This is it! I laid my First Hash.



I got very busy last week and didn't find time to upload a post about my first hash. Numerous rekkis finally paid off and it was a great night (lots of people gave complements!)

Unfortunately it started to rain when the run started (I was at my place preparing the food for the on-on) so we were little bit nervous - maybe people get injured or the rain washes our paper away etc etc.



Oliver's Koinobori looking sad in the pouring rain...

Finally after one hour and 20min or so the front runner came back to our simpang! We were so glad they could run though without getting lost (even though they told me there was a wee confusion at the end).
We served a very nice welcome back drink that Boel made (super yummy!).





Nicole and Boel in our Japanese outfit

I was very excited to serve all the different Japanese food. And to my surprise all the food was gone!!! Must have been good ha!?



Curry, Gyoza, Edamame, Sushi and even Hello Kitty shortbread

It was very hard to organise but it was well worth it, I really enjoyed it!
(You can view more photos on Boel's blog)

Hash Rekki - Take 5

Nicole, Boel and I are laying the hash next Tuesday. This is my first time to lay one. We decided since we all live in the same simpang we should lay it just across the road from our house. Our first rekki attempt (Take 1) was 10 days ago. You can see how we did from Boel's blog . On that day basically we didn't come out of the jungle how we wanted - we could not find a way out so we had to turn around and walk out the way we came in.

So we asked our neighbour to come and show us the way out few days later (Take 2) - we thought we were doing so well until we came to the last part of the run - water reservoir, this was supposed to be mostly dried out so that we can walk getting only knee high wet. Let me tell you what happened - We had to swim!!! Ben, Claire and Simba went first. They were walking confidently (even though they were in the water up to their waist (Simba the doggy was already swimming at this point) and suddenly they went down in the water. It got deeper and they couldn't touch the bottom!! We were all soaked (as you would when you swim in the lake!).

We weren't sure about this deep part of the reservoir so we went out for a rekki again (Take 3) this time in the pouring rain / storm. Please don't ask us why... As you can guess we didn't get too far on that day. But we now know for sure the reservoir will be too deep to walk across and looking too dangerous since it has been very stormy and rainy recently.

So somehow we have to find a way to come out of the jungle bypaassing it. Hence Take 4. This morning Boel and Nicole went in again to find a way out. (I had to go to Geckos so I didn't go) Since the men had their hash at the same site on Wednesday we thought it will be easier to follow their paper to find the trail leading to our pass. It wasn't that simple - They lost the paper half way through and didn't get anywhere.

We had a little meeting this morning and decided by looking at the map Boel's Garmin watch shows us, to do another rekki this evening. So off we went AGAIN. This time we were quite confident that we will find our way out easily. Should be right? This is our 5th attempt!!



Very nice and jungly



We stopped for a gummy break.
Boel and Nicole

Now all we have to do is go in again (this will be Take 6!!) on Tuesday afternoon to lay it with proper paper. We are sure all this hard work will pay off. It will be a fantastic run! and on on /shout out will be at my place - What sort of food do you think we are preparing - very hard to guess ha??

I am very excited now! It is going to be a great hash!!