Then, this Friday morning, we got a call. The USA team that was curling in the Olympics, dropped out of the US Men's Nationals competition. They get an automatic bid into the Nationals the year after the Olympics. Since Paul's team was next in line, they get their spot. This is great news because they worked hard to get to nationals. However, would have been nice to have more than a week's notice! So now besides having houseguests, we are running around trying to get Paul's team some uniforms, airline tickets and hotel accomodations. I have no idea if I'll be able to get out there and watch any of it or not.
Friday afternoon, Paul and I left the kids with Paul's parents and headed up to Vancouver to have dinner with friends from my scrapbooking message board (we stayed the night with one of them) then Saturday morning headed to see the Bronze Men's game. Sweden v. Switzerland. We went really early and got right through security. After walking SEVERAL blocks in the POURING rain. So we used our extra time to stand under the blow driers in the bathrooms and dry and thaw out before going into the very cold curling rink.
I like to pick a team to root for and decided on Sweden after watching them do some really cool helicopter stretches with their brooms (I tried to get a video, but missed it!)
The game was excellent. Switzerland did win, but it came down to the final two rocks. Very exciting. Oh, and one thing you won't see on TV- 1/2 way through a lady completely fell down the stairs head over heals! She came back to watch in the front row with a bandaged nose and her arm in a sling.
Sweden is in the blue/yellow, Switzerland is in the red/white:
The Swiss team wins...
This was one of the most awesome shots:
Then we came home and Paul's team for Nationals played against the Jr Men's Nationals team, which is flying out to Switzerland and is from our club.
Today we did the Ride the Ducks tour...
Then we rode the carosel after eating at Ivar's
Then the boys got ice cream.
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