• Goodbye dinner (and surprise shower)

    July 5, 2016 in Austria ⋅ ⛅ 75 °F

    We all (well, except for the 4 people who had already left) ended up gathering in the hotel restaurant and sitting outside to enjoy one last meal together. Suddenly it started raining. We were all content to wait it out, thinking it was just a cloudburst, and we were under the shelter of trees, but the waiters, who know the local weather patterns, practically threw us out of our seats and ushered us inside, just as the entire heavens opened up. It was quite the deluge.

    Just before dinner, we recorded our last Competitours video that explained what we thought one of the ice formations we saw in the cave really looked like (as opposed to what the guide told us it was named). Here is our last video effort:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1j5kspDgN0&amp…

    After dinner, we gathered in the lobby to watch a video one of the group had cut together from all the photos and video she had taken on the trip. It was fricking amazing and I still don't understand how she could do it all so quickly, even though she pulled an all-nighter the night before:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCq7WNe1OyM

    Then Steve announced the winners and we were shocked to discover we ended up in third place. Cash prize, woohoo!
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