Wife Carrying, Wife Ferrying and Pike Carrying Contest

[caption id="attachment_73" align="alignnone" width="417" caption="Wife Carrying"][/caption] This weekend it was the 2nd Annual Wife Carrying, Wife Ferrying and Pike Carrying contest in Torpy Park to raise money for Winter Park. It was quite an event to watch! This is not a picture of Troy and Jenny! [caption id="attachment_74" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Wife Ferrying"][/caption] The wife ferrying was even more entertainging. The sport of Wife Carrying started I heard in Finland and is just catching on in the United States [caption id="attachment_78" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Fixing the tunnel from Wife Ferrying collision"][/caption] John's couterpart, Linda enjoying her retirement by repairing the tunnel for the next run of Wife Ferrying. When will Jenny and Troy compete in this event? The same year John and Linda do [caption id="attachment_75" align="alignnone" width="375" caption="More Wife Carrying pics racing through the water"][/caption] My favorite though was the new contest this year Pike Carrying for the kids [caption id="attachment_76" align="alignnone" width="375" caption="Getting ready for Pike Carrying"][/caption] Max seeing how heavy the pike is before signing up [caption id="attachment_79" align="alignnone" width="375" caption="Pike Race off and running. Don't let the Pike touch the ground"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_80" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="You too could do this"][/caption] Start training it is only 364 more days til the next Wife Carrying event.