Woke up and ate breakfast at the hotel.
Made some calls to touch base with Cory and Mom and Dad as they are all flying out to Seattle today and making the drive up to Mary Jo and Johnny's house to stay for the week, just outside of Vancouver.
We took off from the hotel around 9.45 and got to the rink the security wasn't too bad they waived Miyuki, Mary Anne, Jackie and Theresa (our host) through the metal detectors, but snagged Matt and Leah. We got past many volunteer guarded check points and finally to our room where we settled in.
13 Feb 12.00 Women's Preliminary Round at UBC Thunderbird arena
Sweden (3) vs. Switzerland (0) a good, fast, close game with a "capacity crowd" of 5,222.
Leah (Duluth) is the referee and Miuki (Japan) and I will be on the lines.
http://www.iihf.com/channels10/olympics-2010/news/news-singleview-world-championship-2009/article/sweden-opens-olympics-with-win.html?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=3471&cHash=0af0344657
After the game we showered at the rink, headed back to the hotel and changed into street clothes and headed to the other game. Canada (18) played Slovakia (0) game at the Canada Hockey Place.
Joy (referee - UK), Meg (lines - US) and Zuzana (lines - CZE) worked the game in the packed rink. While making our way up to the VIP area we ran into some players from the men's Slovakia team. http://www.ancouver2010.com/olympic-hockey/schedule-and-results/womens-preliminary-round---group-a-game-1_ihw400a01Sa.html 
I should mention that the security on the way into the rink was a ton of fun; we asked them if we could take some photos with them and before we knew it they wanted their picture taken with all of us! 
We hit the "official" Olympic store on the walk back from the rink. http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-hockey/schedule-and-results/womens-preliminary-round---group-a-game-1_ihw400a01Sa.html Cory, Mom, Dad, Katie and Ava all made it in safe and are in duty free shop on the border.
There are 2 games tomorrow, but I am not skating again yet. http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-hockey/schedule-and-results/womens-preliminary-round---group-a-game-1_ihw400a01Sa.html
Made some calls to touch base with Cory and Mom and Dad as they are all flying out to Seattle today and making the drive up to Mary Jo and Johnny's house to stay for the week, just outside of Vancouver.
We took off from the hotel around 9.45 and got to the rink the security wasn't too bad they waived Miyuki, Mary Anne, Jackie and Theresa (our host) through the metal detectors, but snagged Matt and Leah. We got past many volunteer guarded check points and finally to our room where we settled in.
13 Feb 12.00 Women's Preliminary Round at UBC Thunderbird arena
Sweden (3) vs. Switzerland (0) a good, fast, close game with a "capacity crowd" of 5,222.
Leah (Duluth) is the referee and Miuki (Japan) and I will be on the lines.
http://www.iihf.com/channels10/olympics-2010/news/news-singleview-world-championship-2009/article/sweden-opens-olympics-with-win.html?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=3471&cHash=0af0344657After the game we showered at the rink, headed back to the hotel and changed into street clothes and headed to the other game. Canada (18) played Slovakia (0) game at the Canada Hockey Place.
Joy (referee - UK), Meg (lines - US) and Zuzana (lines - CZE) worked the game in the packed rink. While making our way up to the VIP area we ran into some players from the men's Slovakia team. http://www.ancouver2010.com/olympic-hockey/schedule-and-results/womens-preliminary-round---group-a-game-1_ihw400a01Sa.html I should mention that the security on the way into the rink was a ton of fun; we asked them if we could take some photos with them and before we knew it they wanted their picture taken with all of us! We hit the "official" Olympic store on the walk back from the rink. http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-hockey/schedule-and-results/womens-preliminary-round---group-a-game-1_ihw400a01Sa.html Cory, Mom, Dad, Katie and Ava all made it in safe and are in duty free shop on the border. There are 2 games tomorrow, but I am not skating again yet. http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-hockey/schedule-and-results/womens-preliminary-round---group-a-game-1_ihw400a01Sa.html
