{"id":4234,"date":"2010-11-23T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/?p=4234"},"modified":"2017-07-22T14:33:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T13:33:31","slug":"day-128-its-sydney-showtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/expedition-updates\/day-128-its-sydney-showtime\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 128 : Its Sydney Showtime!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starring : Martha the Mercedes<\/p>\n<p>Co-starring : the FTFE crew, Sydney Fire Fighters, a Police Escort, two Ozzie fire engines, Channel 9 News crew and 14 crabs<\/p>\n<p>Act 1 : A spectacular convoy across Sydney Harbour Bridge<\/p>\n<p>Act 2 : A monumental match at City of Sydney Fire Station<\/p>\n<p>Grand finale : The crabs go crazy at The Friend in Hand, Glebe<\/p>\n<p>Today Martha was to hit the big screen, her name in lights, this was her Martine Mccutcheon moment.\u00a0 We had to make sure she looked gorgeous darlings. Cleaning her windscreen with baby wipes and bottled water\u00a0wasn&#8217;t\u00a0going to cut it, a garage screen wash the only way to make sure she was dressed to impress.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Act 1 : Steve Moore was in the hot seat, he\u2019d played this role many times before but this time was different, no second takes, this time it mattered.\u00a0 As a police escort set the pace the impressive convoy, Martha and two Sydney fire engines, made their way to Sydney Harbour bridge, the Channel 9 News Team hot on their tail.<\/p>\n<p>It was a rousing performance from our leading lady, Steve stepping up to the challenge and driving like a true professional.<\/p>\n<p>The hard work that had gone on behind the scenes to ensure a flawless performance was obvious.\u00a0 The timing was impeccable, traffic lights all turned to green (think Italian job) as the entourage headed over the \u2018coathanger\u2019, filmed by Channel 9 as they weaved through the traffic.<\/p>\n<p>The morning was topped off by an inspiring TV interview from Steve and the crew. \u00a0A big thank you to the Highway Patrol, the Commissioner,<strong> <\/strong>New South Wales Fire Brigade, Ian Beattie and Channel 9 News for making it all possible.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/irSsft_b_Do?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/irSsft_b_Do?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Act 2 : It was hot, it was sweaty, it was gritty.\u00a0 The audience weren\u2019t ready for another Australia v England clash, so the FTFE crew played alongside the talented Aussie fire fighters.\u00a0 The crew took their roles very seriously, except for Amy, who seemed to be there to make up the numbers.\u00a0 As the two teams competed relentlessly, it\u00a0wasn&#8217;t\u00a0about taking part, it was all about winning.\u00a0 But after 5 matches of blood, sweat and tears, there was only one winner\u2026 volleyball.<\/p>\n<p>Grand Finale : The Friend in Hand is world famous for crab racing.\u00a0 As the race caller, Dom, set up the crab track (a circular platform that the crabs race from the centre to the edge) the atmosphere was tense.\u00a0 Spectators had paid $5 to name and race their crabs and they were ready to see what they were made of.\u00a0 The race wasn\u2019t straight forward by any means. The favourite \u2018Crabs\u2019 got a dream run and looked the most likely winner, only to get confused before the finish line and be overtaken by underdog \u2018Snail Trail\u2019, who walked away with first place.\u00a0 After an impressive run by newcomer \u2018Fish cake\u2019, coming in second, the crowd went wild. To top it all off $230 was raised for Follow That Fire Engine.\u00a0 Result!<\/p>\n<p>Reviews :<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMartha sets off and doesn&#8217;t let go of you until the end, at which point you wish you were still on the ride!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSlammin, jammin, what a volley ball contest!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe crab racing was epic, one of the best nights of my life\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoyed the show.<\/p>\n<p>Amy<\/p>\n<p>[flickr album=72157625465689268 num=30 size=Square]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starring : Martha the Mercedes Co-starring : the FTFE crew, Sydney Fire Fighters, a Police Escort, two Ozzie fire engines, Channel 9 News crew and 14 crabs Act 1 : A spectacular convoy across Sydney Harbour Bridge Act 2 : A monumental match at City of Sydney Fire Station Grand finale : The crabs go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expedition-updates","category-perth-to-brisbane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4234"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5955,"href":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234\/revisions\/5955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}