Friday is laundry day. Pretty mundane, huh? But highly necessary. It would be great to have a place to launder clothes right here in my little home. But I don’t. I have to get into my car, which hasn’t been driven in a week, and hope it starts. And luckily it does.
The Laundromat is located north at an RV park called Riverside. I unload all of my gear, and what do you know, there is a TV with the men’s super G on. This is great. I can wash my clothes AND watch more alpine skiing. Do I ever tire of watching downhill racing? No. Definitely not. I really haven’t done much skiing since I’ve gotten here, which is not what I had planned, but I can ski anytime. I can’t always take in all of the cultural and interesting things the Olympic brings, so I chose to hang around the village more, and the ski slopes, less. Today was Bode’s day to win bronze. What a treat to watch him haul down the hill.
While at work today, my manager, Kate, who is funny and creative and whom I love working with shows me an application on her I-Phone. You can pull up a cowbell, put your country’s flag on it and then shake your phone back and forth, and it rings like a cowbell. There are cowbells all over the village. There are big ones, so large that a good sized man can barely wrap his arms around it to carry. There are little ones on pins, there are cowbells to go around your waist, your neck or your wrist. They are every shape and size cowbells and now there is an application for your I-Phone. I have a blackberry, and for the first time have some remorse. This is the most interesting thing that happens at work today, except for watching Evan Lysacek win the gold (which is pretty darn nice).
Today is a great day. Rod and my son, Nate, are coming for a couple of days. After I worked I walked back to the trailer, and within 20 minutes, I hear, “Hi Mom” from outside the trailer. I poke my head out, and sure enough, there they are with all of their gear…..I’ll say this again….All of their gear. This is a small space. It is unknown where all of it is going to fit! But I’m so happy to see them that it really doesn’t matter how much gear there is. We’ll find a way to make it work.
We set off to the village and decide to have dinner at Earls. It is Friday night in the village and it is packed. We are seated fairly quickly right in front of another TV where highlights are being played. We sit next to a man we discover is from Germany. He speaks very good English. I had told Nate about the cowbell application, and he was working on downloading it. He and the German man strike up a conversation, and he wants to know about the cowbell. Since he just has an I-Pod, it is uncertain if he can download it, but within a few minutes, he has it on his phone and is ringing it in his ear with a big smile on his face. It’s the special moments like this that link us across the oceans. We all laughed at such a silly invention, that brings such laughter.
On the way back to the trailer, we stop to see if there are any tickets left for women’s super G in the morning, but they are sold out. The woman in the booth said that we could show up 3 hours before the race, and they may have some tickets left, so we make a plan to go down to Creekside in the morning to see if we can see the Super G.
It has been gorgeous at night and this evening walking home was no exception. It was nice to share my walk with Rod and Nate.
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