The Launch for 9 Peaks Challenge

so launch day came and went - thank you to Rene Winter from Wintec Solutions who graciously hosted us - the whole crazy bunch in fact.  Sane got a friend to sponsor our pink golf shirts with our Team Zodwa logo embroidered in - this was the first time this logo had been put onto a shirt so it was super cool to see this.  My old school friend Lee Pedlar made the original design for us and my other old mutual school friend Zoe Clifford put it into various formats for us. So thank you ladies!!
Our main sponsors Land Rover Pietermaritzburg and Peugeot Pinetown delivered their cars to the event and were on display together with all the Meals on Wheels display materials. The full Team Pink and Team Blue where there for the shoot - Sean was a little late and missed a few pics then Rene had to dash (we did hijack his event of course!) and missed a few - then finally the whole team could sit still for a few group photos which proved to me a mission in itself - Sean discovered the irrigation system which proved too much of a temptation for him (he must be a menace on Everest with all that frozen water eish) and he turned the sprinklers onto some of us - so Jordan of course not be be out done by the old men had to return fire and between the photos lots of screaming and ducking and diving was happening as the sun was setting on a wonderful day.


to our delight Kobus brought mini Kobus along and how cut is he - had all the girls swooning!! nice one KB!! Sean was chatting about Everest and the the high tech goodies he had to use on the mountain, awesome talk and then Kobus talked about the 9 peaks and then came the ooohs and aaaahs from Pamela, Sane and Irene - wide eyed excited and a big gulp for Jordan. Was soo cool to see picks of our beautiful mountains and somewhat daunting task that lay ahead of us.  Next was me to talk very quickly about Team Zodwa and why we were taking on the peaks - eish more like the flipping peaks taking us on!! then on cam Gershon to chat about Meals on Wheels and their partnership with Team Zodwa.  Lots of good nosh, great friends and laughs - all in all a great day.







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