This week I received the invitation to pickup my uniform and accreditation. I'm getting an shell jacket and pant combo, with 2 long sleeve shirts and a toque. This will be at 8pm on the day I arrive (Tues, Feb 9th). My flight gets in to Vancouver at 11am, so I have plenty of time to find my way up to Whistler, though I'm quite sure things will be really buzzing by then.
A day later I received my venue training invite. This won't happen now until Thursday (the 11th, one day before opening ceremonies) at 9am. I'ts a 3 hour tour of the Venue etc. I may bring my skiis along, as some course crew divisions will require going out onto the course!. I will have to wait and see what Dave Willis (my Crew Chief) has to say about it. So, I'll likely spend most of Wednesday getting food and stuff for up at Wommies place in Pemberton. Jeff has kindly offered me accommodation for this trip. In his words, I will be sleeping "...in a heated garage with working beer fridge and couch..." This is due mainly to the fact that Ferd had requested the spare room in the house over a year before I got the offer to go to the Olympics.
I have to say I am excited about Christmas this year. I am about to experience a very unique version of it. On Christmas morning at 6am, a taxi will pick me up at my hotel right next to the Gloucester Road tube station (I'll be at the Holiday Inn in Kensington London UK) to take me to the Neasdon station where the Jubilee line central control centre is located. Normally, you could just ride the tube to get there, but this year, my company has purchased the rights to shut down the entire line for 4 days straight starting Friday so we can continue field testing the signalling upgrade that we are providing. I fly out on Tuesday nite at 11pm on the 'red-eye'.
I'm going to miss my family alot, but this trip will pay me enough to help in a major way towards covering for the 25 days off I will have coming next February!
Merry Christmas everyone.......
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