Opening Ceremony

We have just arrived back at the hotel from the opening ceremony. What a big and impressive ceremony it was! Obviously hosting this event is huge for Kamien Pomorski as it seemed the whole of the town turned out.
The evening started with the parade of nations. Funnily enough New Zealand came right at the end after Uruguay and before the host nation, Poland. Every other country got ordered in English alphabetical order. We think they may have disregarded the New in our name and ordered us by Zealand. They certainly didn't like it when we tried to reorganise it :-)We paraded past most of the township who were going wild as we approached (we do believe however that it may have been because Poland were right behind us).Zak was our flag bearer and Carolina was Australia's flagbearer.They had to carry the flags up to the front area of the stage. There were speeches, dancers and Vikings - really it was a great evening.A lot of work was put into making the children feel special. We missed the fireworks as they were not starting until 11pm (it is only dark here about then) and we needed to get our children back to bed.
Tomorrow is Day 1 of the regatta. The first race is at 12 which is about the time the wind comes in every day. Boys and girls race separately. Each fleet is split into four flights. We know our two girls are in the same flight but the boys have not been posted yet. Zak told me he was hoping to get into the green flight as this is the beginner flight back home and he doesn't have the opportunity to race in this flight at home.