Wrooooom!

Oh yes, it's here again! WRC Rally Norway is back, and I'm loving it. Or at least, I love the idea of it - I'm such a sucker for rally, it's the only sport I can be mildly arsed to care about. I like cars, I even love some of them, and with two car mechanics in my close family and my brother being a petrol head, I've been sort of programmed since birth to like cars. Or, as they say here, "Rally in the blood". If I'd been more stubborn as a kid, and my mum hadn't been so horribly overprotective and anxious I might've nagged myself into starting with motorsports. I've even asked my dad to sponsor a co-driver course (Y'know, those who read the maps for the drivers? 4 right, over crest..) , but got categorically denied and forbidden to partake in any such activity. Hrmpfh.

It's been 2 years since last time Rally Norway was here, and back then I was as broke as I am now, but luckily my brother worked as a marshal then, and got some free passes, which gave me the chance to see four different rally stages. This year, however, I am working myself. Which gave me a shiny Marshal's badge. And the opportunity to stand outside in -18 degrees celcius for 6 hours, alone, watching a road. Yes, a road. Not that the road needed watching, it could manage perfectly on its own, I just had to watch that people didn't use it to get to a super stage. Of course I could see the purpose, if people had found out that this was a shortcut down to a super stage, and one that no one else was using, it would've been used a lot. Which would block the path for ambulance, red cross and anyone else who needed to get to the rally road quickly. And I did get a free weekend pass out of it, which is a bloody expensive piece of plastic to get. But I have to say that it got cold and boring very quickly. I was so far away from the track that I didn't see a single thing, I could just hear the engines in the distance. On top of everything I was behind a patch of tree's that naturally blocked out the sun which could've provided some warmth. But I have to admit, it is rather pretty outside with 50cm of snow and the sun shining beautifully from a clear blue sky. Perfect rally weather!

On Sunday I am going to work as a volunteer for the rally once again, but this time at another place, and with something else - selling food. I know for a fact that I won't be alone, I'll be closer to the track (a lot closer), and I'll be near a heat source (the barbeqeue). So Sunday will definately be better. And now that I've established that I haven't managed to ruin my £460 camera, I'll hopefully be taking some pretty awesome pictures. In the meanwhile you'll have to make do with this one I managed to take with my camera phone today. Which is also on the web.