The Penultimate Day 2/19/2006
Tomorrow we leave for the airport and Kansas City; we hear it is cold there,
but that is okay, we have plenty of long john’s.
Yesterday we headed off to the 2 man bobsled. It would have been great, but
as we were sitting on the train, I looked over at Cheri and asked her if she
had the tickets. She did not. We had to get off the train before it left
and run back to the hotel. Luckily trains leave every 30 minutes, but we
were already on the train and ready to go. IT is only a 12 minute walk back
to the hotel if the people will get out of your way.
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**we just waited over half an hour to use the computer, and now all of the
over computers are free!!! How Annoying!!! Don’t they know this is the
penultimate day? We have lots left to do!!!***
Anyway, we raced back to the hotel to get the tickets and then back to the
train station. Can I just say, we were hot!! We each had on 2 pairs of
long johns and 2 shirts. We were dressed for cold weather, not for running
obstacle courses. By the time we made it to the Bobsled event and made it
through security and partway up the track, we had completely missed the
first of the 2 runs that they were doing. We had to hike all the way up to
the top- all the way- through slush, snow, and mud. It wore us out. We
were sitting at the very start so we got to see everyone bringing out their
sleds and wiping them down, and we got good views of men in spandex. It was
pretty exciting; there was even a spectator from Overland Park, KS standing
right next to me. We weren’t there long enough to get that cold; I never
had to whip out the wool socks and add them on. It was cool to see the
start, though.
Quote of the day overheard after wading through thick, squishy mud to get
into the porta-potty: “Daddy, is that poop?” unfortunately, i did not hear
what daddy said.
Cheri at Bobsled
Mari at Bobsled
Today we have Freestyle. I am going to wear just as many layers today
because we plan on arriving on time. I don’t like to be cold; the way to
make the winter olympics better would be to have them in the summer.
Tonight after the freestyles, we have the task of packing our suitcases. We
have been really restrained and not bought much, but we have been trying to
get all the free stuff we can. We have been by Omega- the official time
keeper of the olympics- every day because they have free pins. There are 12
in all; i think we have half of them. When we finish here, we will head
back there for the second time. Then we will head over to the Sponsor
Villiage to see if we can get another Samsung Pin and any free postcards.
You can tell we have all of this planned out; this is not the first time we
have done this. Then, on the way back to the hotel, we will stop at one of
the department stores, buy something we don’t need and pay with visa, so we
can get a free gift. We are on a budget and are all about the free stuff.
If we get blisters from all the walking, don’t worry, we have free bandaids
from Comspeed, the official wound healer of the olympic games. If we don’t
have enough, they also gave us a coupon for 1 euro off at the pharmacy.
Wouldn’t it be great if we got to use coupons in Italy? We did use a 10%
off discount card the other day when we were eating pizza.
Every time we took our picture at the Omega bobsled we got a free pin!
This is more than likely the final message from Torino; we wont be back to
the hotel until late tonight and then we will have to pack up the snowboots
and long johns so that we can head back to kansas.
love,
thetwinsontour
ps- we need to go find some pizza; i am hungry. My new favorite pizza is
Eggplant- it is surprisingly delicious. who would have thought? the
incredible, edible egg plant. If that fails, we will just have to have some
gelato. we did find out that there is a time when it is too early for
gelato; as we were walking buy them this morning, they were all closed.
what a pity- maybe they will be open now.
pss- free stuff is calling our name!! gotta run!! even though we still
have 26 minutes of paid internet time- daylight is burning!! i hope it is
done raining!!
On the train after Bobsled
Mari on the train after Bobsled
Bobsled fan
thetwinsontour 