Thursday - "The Wheels On The Bus".....

...go round and round" or so the song goes...and indeed they did for the Highlanders yesterday.The squad assembled at Cedar Falls on Thursday for a 9am departure to Pittsburgh, but not before the obligatory team shot (which is a bit like the tradition of Everest expeditions, where the group poses for a picture at Base Camp in front of the mountain they plan to conquer).

The journey was long - indeed there was some debate about "whether he'd take the mountain route" or "why are we going via DC?" which all helped to pass the time.
We arrived at the Pittsburgh Harlequins RFC ground with time to spare for the players to register.

An added bonus was seeing a few of the Highland team arriving at the the same time, and several people remarked that "they did not look as big as the guys from the movie". But it was soon time to get back on the bus and head fro dinner at Smokey Bones, and then the hotel for an early night before tomorrow's opening 1130am game against the storied Salt Lake City Highland rugby team.

GO HIGHLANDERS!