Airport, Eagles and Old Teammates

Not the Olympics without a photo with the Mascots.

Today was an airport swap day. Jen and I got up really early and headed for the Seattle airport. It was time for her to head back to Indiana for work and for mom to fly in to join me. Fortunately this time I didn't get the third degree at the border. Last time I was worried they weren't going to let me back into the USA. This time was a lot less nerve wracking. We made it down in good time and I dropped Jen off. Since I had time before mom arrived I went to pick up some things. Including a bag with Graham Watanabe on it at the McDonald's. Who knew asking for a bag could cause so much confusion? I asked if I could have one of the "Sauce it" bags because that is the one that has Graham on it. They thought I was asking for sausage. It took 3 staff members before one finally understood what I wanted. By that time I had figured out it might be easier to just ask for the medium size bag with a snowboarder on it. So now I have my Graham Watanabe McDonald's bag. Hoping I can get him to sign it as a fun Olympic souvenir.

On our way back up to Vancouver right at the border I saw the first Bald Eagle for this trip. Then once we were across and headed for the city we saw two more. Jen and I kept looking for wildlife and only found squirrels. Two hours with mom and I get 3 bald eagles. Obviously Jen and I were not looking in the right places.

This evening we went and met up with friends for dinner at Monk McQueen's on the waterfront. Danielle and I had played soccer together in Australia before our senior year in high school. We have seen each other one other time since then when I was in Boston for the first WUSA Championship game. Now that she is on the west coast with her husband they decided to come up to Vancouver for the Olympics. They have something like 3 hockey games, curling and men's slalom. I'm crossing my fingers that they make it to slalom. After a week of weather that makes you question if you are at the winter games it is going to storm. They are saying Whistler could get 10 inches this week. Hoping that it doesn't start before our trip up there tomorrow for bobsled. I'd like mom to see the beautiful views.

Tomorrow we have women's bobsled and then we have Aerial finals on Wednesday and Thursday. I heard that Emily Cook, Lacy Schnoor and Ashley Caldwell made the finals for our women. Hoping that our men do as well. Tuesday is a big day for our ski teams. The men's GS and the Nordic Combined team event are both tomorrow. So, good luck to Billy, Johnny, Todd and Brett in NC and good luck to Bode, Ted, Tommy and Jake in GS. GO USA!