02.18.2010 - Day 8 - A day with Cory

Went down to breakfast at the hotel.
Meeting with group at 9.30 and crew review (we got our review from Jarmo last night right after the game).
Met up with Cory and walked to Canada Place and watched the men's USA vs. Norway game. We bought a jersey for Dwight and walked back to the hotel.
Ava is not feeling good she has a cough and had a fever last night, Dad went golfing and Mary Jo is recovering from her knee surgery, yesterday, that she waited 3 years on a list for surgery so they are staying at the house today.
Walked around a bit, shopped and got Cory some Sushi. Went back to the hotel to dump the stuff we purchased, including a duffel bag for me to send home with Cory loaded with stuff.

The small covered outdoor open skating rink in the square with the orca boni and the referee patrolling the skaters.
People gathering everywhere to see the Olympics on TV; this is in the middle of the mall...
Cory took off to the men's game Slovakia vs. Russia and I shopped on the way back to my meeting at the hotel with the girls crew. After our football meeting cut short we walked to the concert that Joy set up for us to get into; only it started at 8pm and the last act went on at 9:15 and according to the security guard the fireworks are even over! Then back to the hotel and into bed. We will be taking a 9am bus to Whistler tomorrow to see the sites.
We received our game assignments for the next few days; tomorrow off for all and I skate again on the 22nd Canada vs. Finland at 17.05 (Vancouver time) with Nicole (Germany) and Malena (Denmark).

02.13.2010 - Day 3 - Game Day!

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.

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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