What a nice (and long) day we had today at Illoura reserve, a park with one of the best views in Sydney!
We started having a delicious breakfast, including a wide variety of bakery creations done by several members of our team: muffins, banana, apple and chocolate cakes, cookies and even super cute edible “castellers”!
With our stomachs happy, it was time to perform. We started with a 4 of 4 clean, which was the first tower that our youngest casteller: congratulations, Alex! Everything went very smooth and we know that with some more training, the next generation of our canalla will be soon climbing to the 5th (or maybe 6th!) level. We continued with our second attempt ever of a 3 of 6 with the pillar. Unfortunately, the attendance to the performance was not as high as expected… our pinya was so small that it could not hold the weight of the tower and it opened when the acotxadora was already at dosos. We decided to dismantle it and, to rebuild the confidence, the cap de colla decided to do a 4 of 5 clean. We completed without any problem, highlighting the skills of both the new tronc and the pom de dalt. To give further support to the tower, we decided to leave the 3 of 6 with the pillar for another performance, and we started the 3 of 6. Now the pinya was a solid rock, nobody was moving and the tower went up very smoothly. However, the enxaneta could not do the last 3 steps because the pants of the open dos were extremely slippery and, after 3 attempts, the cap de colla had to call it down. Once everyone was back on the floor, we all had a bitter-sweet feeling, because we had no doubt that if the enxaneta didn’t slip, we would have completed the tower with ease. Well, next time the dos will have to wear better pants and it’ll be ours! With this certainty, we decided to continue with a 7 of 5, where many newbies climbed for their first time. It was a success and we ended the performance with a 2 pillars of 3 and a pillar of 4, which again showed how amazing our pilaners are.
After “baptising” our newbies, it was time for the 2 paellas… again, hats off to the cooks, the lunch was absolutely delicious!
We continued with some team games, including tug of war, snowman (Elsa looked like a really cute balloon with everyone else’s clothes on!) and even some creative “elephant sculptures”. There was a fierce competition between the 2 teams… but it ended up in a tie.
And what a better way to finish a whole day of activities and castells than with some dancing: la polka de l’ours and the tricky-tracka song! Thanks everybody for such an special day!
