The Volunteers Get Their Day

This post is a week late but better to be late than never coz its important that I do a post on the people that made the Commonwealth Games such a success, the volunteers.

The day after the Closing Ceremony we pay our thanks and gratitude to the people involved in the Games that made it all possible, the volunteers. They did it for the love of the Games and nothing else. How could we ever do without these volunteers.

So in honour of them we had a little parade in the city so the general public can cheer and thank them. Yes I know, Australians love parades, I can hear 5xmom saying; "Not another parade". The athletes marched infront of the parade much to the delights of the public. Everybody was cheering and congratulating them.

Followed by the medical volunteers. You must have medical trainings to qualify for this particular volunteer works and they are distinctly dressed in red different to the normal volunteers who are dressed in blue.

And these are the general volunteers we came for. They are also grouped into different areas of work like drivers, crowd controllers and anything and anywhere that a person may be required.

This volunteer got a bit over excited and came over to hi-5 us! Good on you buddy! Gimme 5!

He loved to camwhore and his name is Colin Parkinson and he was a driver in the Games. Well done Colin! Now get moving!

There didn't seem to have an end to the parade! It went on forever...there were about 9,000 volunteers during the Games and not all of them were in the parade today. Thank goodness for volunteers, how much would the Games cost if we had to pay all these 9,000 people! I was told by Jeremy C that his cousins were in the volunteering works too, can you spot them Jeremy?


The parade went up Swanton Street, then turned into Collins Street and ended up at the Treasury Gardens where they have a little thankings and speeches by the politicians before finishing. 3 cheers for the volunteers!