Bode Finally Gets his Gold!

It is Monday morning - I have the whole day off! I am going to go skiing for a few hours later this morning.

I have updated the captions on the last 2 photo albums on Picassa.

Yesterday we only started work at noon. In the morning I worked on my blog and caught up on my sleep. In the afternoon we rolled a lot of b-net that needed to be taken down at the top of the course. Now that there is just the GS and Slalom left to race all the safety netting can come down above that. We rolled net, had a beer at Vuarnet Beach and then rolled some more net.

It was a big day for the US yesterday - Bode Miller won the Men's Super Combined race. I hadn't been to an Awards Celebration in the Village yet. Each night the medals from the Alpine, Nordic, and Sliding are all presented in the village at a special ceremony. Nela, Bob and I decided that we should go - we stood in line at 4 to get tickets - we were allowed in at 5:00 but couldn't leave (we were just standby and didn't have a ticket) so we waited until 7:00 for the ceremony to start. There was a lot of entertainment with a comedian, Olympic Quiz, dancers and music - it was fun! The medal ceremony alternated between medals presented in Whistler and Vancouver at BC Place. We came for one main reason - to see Bode Miller finally win his Olympic Gold!! It was a great moment - the crowd went wild! The experience was really special - I am really glad that I went!

By the end of 4 hours outside - we were very cold and hungry! We had dinner then did a little shopping at the Olympic Store.

Monday - day off, Tuesday - start at 8 am, Wednesday (the weather is supposed to get bad again) - GS race, Thursday - hill prep, Friday - Slalom race and Saturday I leave.

Here are the pictures - with captions
http://picasaweb.google.ca/janeluv2ski/JaneSOlympicAdventure10?feat=directlink

Here is a video of Bode Miller getting his Gold Medal for the Super Combined:
video coming