I’m on my way back to Toronto for one final visit with the
fam, on my way through to Thunder Bay, which conveniently falls on my Mom’s
Birthday! My wonderfully, awesome brother is picking me up from the airport at
midnight in the middle of his exam period…. You’re the best! Right now I just
can’t wait to go to bed. It’s been a full on day of sitting and people watching
as there isn’t much else to do in airports. You should check out my friend
Jennie Bender’s blog post about traveling in airports, it’s pretty hilarious
and yet so true!HERE
By the time I reached Atlanta, Georgia (this means I
basically flew across the Americas), everything became rather humorous. I
noticed, from my middle seat, on the decent into Atlanta, the amount of trees still standing. It
looked like a giant field of broccoli the whole way down, even amongst the
residential areas. I thought it would be much more urban but it turns out
Atlanta likes it’s trees. Good on you Atlanta. Once we landed and the seatbelt sign was turned off I noticed
I had about 15 minutes to catch my connection. This was just as the flight
attendant starts explaining how huge the airport is and to view the screens to
find your concourse as they just opened up a new wing of the airport.
Yippeeeee. Luckily, there was a tram to take me across the airport to catch the
flight. I was that antsy person skipping stairs on the escalator with multiple
“excuse me’s” and speed walking the moving sidewalks. As I finished rushing over to the gate and working up a good
case of the travel sweats (eww) I realized boarding was an hour before take
off. Que the Smoothie King. I went to get a smoothie from a place that looked
like Booster Juice, but instead landed myself at “The Smoothie King” and turns
out in Atlanta the large looks a lot like this:
I never get a large, in anything, what was I thinking? Note
to self, read fine print to realize how big 20oz of orange juice, bananas and
mangos really are. It’s bigger than my head. I drank the whole thing. It was delicious.
But enough about my travels, Bend was great. Really, a sweet
camp with a great group, quality training and a lot of laughs. I promise to
just load up on pictures now....
It was great to see my good friend and Team Hardwood Alumni
Alana, now a member of the AWCA.
One day Michael had REALLY slow skis and I had REALLY
REALLY fast skis so we were able to catch a ski together on a very nice day.
Michael here soaking up the greatness. Thank you Fischer for making uber fast zeros.
Skiers in the morning, Sluggers by the afternoon. Here’s Emily
Nishikawa killing it at bat. “That’s a nice slice” or something like that. I
realized this was my first ever baseball game. I think I did okay… I made
contact with the ball! But also stopped a ball with my shin. Ouch!
One day it snowed forever! A one-armed Kate managed to make a snowman
to “guard” the boys' ride home.
Oh, and day one, we broke a window. We had good intentions when we got locked out but it didn't turn out so well. Quick fix.
My first SUN DOG! I have never seen or heard of it before
but was quickly educated after I called it and upside-down rainbow. A pretty cool site.
View from one of our houses.
Coffee at Thump, a local coffee shop. MMMMM.Wishes are written and hung throughout Thump.
We finished off the camp with a Beck concert at the
downtown Amphitheater. Annika got a prime view.
Enjoying Beck!
Thanks to the Alberta World Cup Academy for taking me on
this last week! Now to get back to Thunder Bay and put in a few solid weeks of
training with the new 2012/2013 NDC team. Can’t wait to see everyone! Next we will take part
in the LSSD training camp held in Thunder Bay. Hopefully I’ll have some adventure before then. Like
redecorating me room…..? What?
Erin.
