1st International Duck Day - Northern Cyprus edition......

As a testament to the sheer Power of The (Toilet or Otherwise) Duck, the 1st International Duck Day was a truly global affair with participants spanning the length and breadth of the globe.  In one special report, our international correspondent, the one and only star of the Get Lean and Loopyliscious Challenge herself, chronicled a day in the life of a GB Olympian ex-pat duck livin' it large in Northern Cyprus.   So then - let not duck about any more and get this show on the road - roll VT!!

Please note: No ducks were harmed in the making of this iReport.  Teenage nephews, however - likely to still be recovering...  

Starting the 1st International Duck Day with a hearty breakfast.
Fortunately eggs were not on the menu today... 

Thomas on the blocks for the first duck race of the day.
The duck won.
By a beak.

Extreme racing.  Seems was a tad frightened, judging by the bonnet*

Taking a look at the other pond life...at Thomas's school...

Having a paddle on his special day

Enjoying the duck boat tour

Waiting for friends down the local watering hole

Interspecies relations improved on Duck Day

Having a quackingly good time in the sprinklers

So as the 1st International Duck Day enters into the canon of national treasured holidays, what can we learn from such a quacktacular event?  Here are my top 10 musings, from both the Cyprus and San Francisco renditions of the day's events:

10.  Ducks will kick 14yr old nephews asses in the Egg and Spoon race every time.
9.  Not eating eggs for breakfast on International Duck Day is probably a good thing.
8.  Attempting to cycle along the embarcadero with a shoulder bag full of Mr Potato Heads is not an ideal method of plastic vegetable convenyance.
7.  The cat is totally faking it and is just waiting for the camera to point in a different direction.
6. Conducting a Potato Head photo shoot in public on a Duck Tour is a sure-fire way to guarantee you plenty of space in the seats immediately surrounding you.
5.  As is then wrapping your arm in Duck Tape and asking the Captain to rip it off for you.
4.  You need to tip really well after completion of  #5.
3.  If your bike chain sounds crunchy, when cycling home from the Duck Boat tour at Fisherman's Wharf, that's probably not a good sign and shouldn't be ignored.
2.  If you ignore a crunchy sounding bike chain, it will invariably snap and come completely off your bike, thus rendering your mode of transportation completely useless.
1.  It is a bloody long walk back from Fisherman's Wharf.

50 Shades of Duck

And finally, I realized that - after all the trouble I'd gone to to order this damn t-shirt for the International Duck day, that you could barely see it in any of the pics, so here is a self-portrait of your's truly (steady now) adorned in said sartorial masterpiece.  Truly what every girl needs to be wearing when she meets a mildly attractive member of the opposite sex.  I only wish I'd know about this sooner - I'm sure I'dve had much better dating luck by now....

And as a final final post script, today I introduced Puff Ducky to Stuffin P. Stuffinson and they seem to be getting along simply famously.  No feathers flying (as yet) and no beaks out of joint, so hopefully this is the start of a beautiful friendship.  The Pfizer Moose (just slightly out of shot) was rather less impressed, so I'll need to keep an eye on him over the next couple of days...


And this, sadly, concludes this year's coverage of the 1st International Duck Day - but concludes with a challenge to the rest of the world, particularly the UK.  Get your broilers, your hens, your cocks (ooer), your chicks and your ducks in a row- next year's Duck Day will be coming to a town near YOU and you will need to prove you're not all complete BRIT CHICKENS and can take on the Yankee Doodle Ducks and the Cyprus Canards....  You have been warned...... so stay tuned......

* helpful condescending translation for US readers: bonnet = hood