Day 2 of the Games

I still have Olympic Fever and yesterday I got a cold to go with it. I've been fighting it for a week, but it finally won. Oh well, I have lots of Cold FX and decongestants to keep it at bay.
I'm now on the bus again at 5 am for the start of Day 3. It's been raining for about 15 hrs now, so hopefully it is snow on the mountain, as tomorrow is my day off and I am meeting friends for a day of skiing. The best part is getting to sleep in until 7am!!!
Yesterday I was assigned to Olympic Park, which is about 25 km south of Whistler. All of the Nordic events are held there (cc skiing, biathalon, ski jumping). When we arrived at 7:30 it was sunny and crisp and there was bus after bus of spectators arriving for the ski jumping. We had 10 vehicles staged and after 9 we started to get busy. I had my first passengers of the Games at 9:20 (2 TV reporters from Switzerland and 2 government press agents from England). As we were exiting WOP (acronym for Whistler Olympic park ...not a Pizza and Pasta restaurant) we were stopped for 30 behind a large line of vehicles. It turns out that US vice president Joe Biden's 40 car motorcade was coming through ...it was very interesting to see. Cindy Crawford was here as well but she just had 2 buff bodyguards in silver ski suits. (Note to Warren Ross - you would so want one of those suits for Kicking Horse). The trip back to Whistler was uneventful and I was back after 11 to queue up for my next ride. At 1pm I picked up 2 gentlemen ...the Olympic Presidents for Austria and Switzerland. They were both happy as they had just won the first medals of the games in the Ski Jump ...Swiss Gold and Austria Silver. I dropped them off in Whistler and was called back to base to end the day. The rest of the day was uneventful, we went to the Brewhouse for a beer (my 2nd of the week ...whoaaa) and was back on the ship at 5. After dinner I watched some events in the ship's theatre ...I love the moguls and short track speed skating and was in bed by 9:30. Tonight I'm going to go crazy and stay up until 10.
Let's hope to get our first Gold today!!!
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Best regards,

Greg
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