Day 8 - Finally got some sleep

I had been kidding myself that you could live an adrenaline alone. I had been sorly missing one other component: sleep. Well, I got a full 8 hrs last night and I feel like it's day one all over again!. Yes.

If you are wondering what 'forjed' means, it the underlying theme that runs through all of what is going on out here: my children. I've already mentioned before that the biggest challenge for me was to be away from my family for so long. Forget lifting heavy Whislter 'elephant snot' all day and side step packing for 2 hrs at a time. That's easy when it comes to the emotions I have about not having them all by side at this glorious event. I hope one day, by seeing me do this, they will be inspired to dream big and live large. Never be afraid to give it your best shot. Your dreams can come true if want them to.

Okay, back to basics again. No alarm set last night (see title). Got up at 9am, ate some breakfast and started to get ready to go to the Creek. Two text messages arrived from my team: where the *&^%$ are you?? I had explained this to Dave, so I didn't worry. Plus, tomorrow was to be my day off, but all days off (and the origianl schedule I was given) were cancelled days ago. I waited for the Pemby bus 35 minutes again. Arrived at the creek, checked in, boots on, grabbed lunch and loaded the gondola. That takes 2hrs to start my day, each day! I checked with both men's and ladies dispatch and was informed that it was too late to get to my site. Course was on hard lock down. My heart sank, thinking of how hard everyone must have been working clear the 25cm from the night before. One text I recieved from the crew said 'you do not want to be here right now' and another 'consider yourself lucky'. They are going to kill me tomorrow!

After a bowl of soup at the break tent at the top of Garbo, and chatting with Dave's daughter Alisha, I did few easy runs near Emerald chair. It's funny when you are at the origial top of Whislter and you see the Peak chair. It kinda calls your name and has this gravitational ability to suck you in. Had to ride it, even though it was 2:30pm and my legs have not quite adapted to mountain skiing yet. The snow was choppy and heavy and I had no poles, but it was still a good ride down none the less.

On my nightly stroll through the village, I came across a silver medalist showing off her medal. I snapped a bunch of shots as this is as close I'll ever get to a real Olympic medal. I never get to spend more than about 1/2hr each evening anywhere near the village, so my nightly strolls to the Gondola Transit exchange are always fun. I see something cool each time. I will find out who she is when I have more time. Maybe some knows, leave a comment on this post if you know.

I had been searching for an idea to help 'pay' rent for staying with Wommie. So this morning, Matthew (his 12 year old son) and I decided that the place needed Wifi. So I jumped down to Function Junction and bought him a router. I'm going to set it up tomorrow.

Heading to bed ready for a 7am breakfast, 8am load time. They tell me the Women's downhill is a go, but it's raining here in Pem right now, which usully means snow up higher. There is supposed to be a high front coming that will drop the temps and clear the skies. Hope it happens....

PS. I've found a good way to blog more information by expanding the descriptions of my photos. So, if you are really following this blog, there is a tonne more stuff on the Feb 16 section photos. I plan to continue this as it's way easier for me to remember the days events that way.

PSS: also, my spelling issues are partly due to the fact I'm using a 10inch ASUS netbook for this and the text font is about 3 pixels big.

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