We safely arrived to the fabulous Ugandi Hotel in Otepaa (which is quite a small town) and had two rooms between the four of us, which was perfect. We checked in and then Cat and I walked down to the venue to check it out and see if other teams were also getting dressed up into costumes or what, and indeed they were so we did our official registration and made some new friends, then scampered back to the hotel to get Leigh and Emma revved up to make our debut. Here we are in the hotel lobby about to walk down to the kick off party.
It was only about a 15 minute walk, and we all had very sensible shoes on - comfy and cozy snow boots. We got down to the venue (which was the town square and also the starting line for tomorrow's main event), and there were 8 mobile saunas installed on the premises, along with some hot tubs and cold plunges. Music was pumping, film crew were around, and we had a brilliant time meeting other teams in the saunas and enjoying the atmosphere.
One of our highlights of the night was hanging out in a hot tub with a team of four Estonian sheep farmers (really!) who were in their mid-20s. So cute!! The most chatty one was called Hades and we had such a brilliant time getting to know them. In retrospect this was one of the highlights of the trip. Since we were all wearing wigs and had striking, noticeable outfits, we got a lot of attention and people would later recognise us. A great start!
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