Day 4

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Finally some cross country skiing!

We woke up this morning to more snow! We went over to the Olympic Sports Complex where the wind was howling and the snow was falling. I think when we got there the temperature was a whopping 9 degrees Fahrenheit!

My Great Uncle Jim gave Carrie a refresher course on how to ski. As part of the lesson we went to the top of a small hill and then explained how to snow plow to stop. Angela and Carrie completed the small hill with ease, but for whatever reason, I got tripped up and fell for the first time on skis in who knows how long! Yes I admit I fell!

Jim then lead the way on a simple trail through the woods that was only about 1.5km/.93 miles. It was a good trail and long enough to make us hungry! The scenery along the way was great especially with the fresh snow on all of the trees.
After we ate, Angela and Carrie went out around another trail that just went around the Nordic stadium, while Jim and I went out on a longer trail. By the time we got back from our 1.5 mile treck the temperatures had dropped, the sun was starting to go down and the girls just got back from theirs and were ready to go. It didn't take any convincing to get the rest of us on board to just head back.

We decided to go out for dinner at one of our favorite restaurants, Mr. Mikes which has some of the best pizza! While at dinner we decided the weather was not permitting to go to a neighboring town for first night festivities. When we left dinner the temperature was -1 and the windchill was -17!! We figured the New Year would come in just as well from the TV as it would in the freezing temperatures with frost bite.

As a special treat I have a video of Carrie on cross country skis! :)


ps. So Angela and Carrie have been doing this wedding workout the last couple of nights that they found on DVD. Each night I usually sit here on the couch and watch then while I blog and try not to laugh at them. Tonight however I gave it a whirl and tried what they have been complaining about for the last couple of nights, and I must say, I am sore now! These workouts don't include weights, don't include machines, but it was a workout, and good grief I'm ready for bed! Just have to stay up a little bit longer to bring in the New Year, and after midnight, I'll be getting married this year! :)!!!

Day 3

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

This morning we woke up to a pleasant surprise, SNOW! We new snow was in the forcast for last night, but we thought it was only suppose to be less than an inch. However as you can see it was closer to 4 or 5 inches!

This picture was taken about 1:30 pm yesterday afternoon.

This picture was taken about 10:00 am today!

After breakfast we headed back over to the ski jumping complex to catch another competition they had going on, however due to high winds the competition was canceled! We were able to head to the top of the 120 Meter jump and go out on the observation deck. The temperatures were much lower today especially with the howling winds that high up, and without gloves because it's harder to work the camera you know with gloves on!

Here is a picture from the top of the 120 M hill.

We then headed back into town and grabbed some lunch before we went to the Olympic Museum and some ice skating! The museum had all kinds of things from both Olympics held in Lake Placid along with other items donated by the athletes from the area. The Lake Placid area has had an Olympian in every winter olympics since they started.

After the trip through the museum we headed to the ice skating rink that was used in the 1932 Olympics. The arena was built in less than 6 months and was the first indoor arena to be used in the Olympics.

Here are me, Carrie and Angela on the ice skating rink.

Day 2

Monday, December 29, 2008

Today was a bunch of nothing. We spent the morning waiting on the cable guy, no his name wasn't Larry, to come and install the cable so we could watch the State game. Then we watched the game and unfortunately were disappointed in the outcome.

After the game we put on some more layers since the temperature has dropped to below freezing and headed over to the ski jump complex to catch the end of the NY Master's Competition. We only got to catch about 5 jumpers but it was still impressive to see them flying through the air.

For now Carrie and my sister are doing a workout from a wedding workout DVD they bought...and are actually quite sore even though they haven't been using the weights.

Tomorrow I believe we will actually get to do some winter related activities, possibly heading out to another ski jump competition, ice skating, maybe even the Olympic Museum.

Lake Placid!

Sunday, December 28, 2008

We have come back up to Lake Placid, NY once again! We arrived last night about 6:30pm to much warmer temperatures then last year. However the van was still not able to make it up the driveway with the slush still hanging on. The mercury was able to make it after much encouragement!

Today we woke up to temperatures in the 50's and all the snow had melted! We didn't do much today, we went into town to do some shopping however the sideways rain, and 20mph winds turned us around after 1 store and we decided to watch a movie in the comfort of the house.

Snow showers are in the forecast for tonight so maybe we will have some snow tomorrow and get to play in the morning. All activities tomorrow afternoon will be canceled due to the State Bowl Game!! Check out our web album for pictures!

Disclaimer: I received a new camera for Christmas so there are many pictures of me just playing with the settings. I'll try to edit those out, but if there are random pictures of random stuff, I apologize!

Kids!

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Ok, so not exactly what you are thinking. Anyways, we set up a fish tank shortly after I moved into my new apartment. We decided to buy guppies and they quickly began to breed. Needless to say after losing all but one of the first set of fry I went out and bought another 10 gallon tank. We then had another pregnancy and more babies, this time able to save 5. Now we only bought 6 fish to start with. 4 males and 2 females. A couple of weeks into it, one of the males died, so we were down to 3 males and 2 females. However after returning from Thanksgiving we are the proud parents of over 30, yes I said THIRTY, baby guppies! If you are looking for a Christmas present that keeps on giving, let me know, I'm sure we can work out some sort of deal....

Here is a look at some of the newest ones, that are available!!!!