Venice

Rachelle and I with our Gondolier in the back ground. The gang on the boat over the Venice

Action shot in St. Marco square

Team USA with the night shot. Me on a bridge looking at the Grand Canal.

So this year the cool thing to do if you were in Europe and on the Skeleton team was going to Venice. There were three different groups that at one point or another were in Venice. We all ended up having a few days off here and there are made our way to Venice. We again on EC 09 went with our Canadian boys and had a great day! The city is amazing and i would love to go back during another trip and spend some more time there! The history and the atmosphere there are soooo much fun! It was an amazing day!!

Last day in the Swiss Alps :(

For our last day in the Swiss Alps we continued our relations with the Canadians and went for a day of sledding. We went to the train station and got our 'rodels' (sleds) as we call them here on the west side... The sledding was about 11km long and it was great. I learned the hard way once that when you need goggles you never have them in Europe so now i travel with them during the season. They as always turned out to be very handy as it started snowing pretty soon after we got started. We had a great time!! But it was sad to leave after
all of the fun!!!!

At the end of our sledding we were all pretty tuckered out but had to go to the 'Ice Bar'
And I had never in my life seen so many pairs of Moon Boots.... It was mind blowing!

Adverntures in Switzerland

The first couple of days we were here is snowed oh so very much and training was canceled. Daly decided that he didn't feel like wearing a shirt towards the end of cleaning off the car.

We couldn't help ourselves by hiding Rachelle in the snow by our cars. Sander and I got in a pretty good snow fight and the last picture is where the four of us lived for the week we were in St. Moritz. 2 boys, 2 girls= one pretty big disaster!

All in all we had a pretty good week. We watched a lot of the original X-Men the cartoon so much better now that i'm older! We also had some good international bonding going on between us the American's and the Canadian staying across the way. We went to a fantastic outdoor pool and spa that was just what we needed for a nice relaxing day!

St. Moritz

Sipping cocoa at the Bob Cafe

It was really really cold for our races

Rachelle has really good camera skills!

Horseshoe... We didn't get along the greatest but my last run we had a good time! Can't wait for the next adventure there!

St. Moritz i sone of the most amazing places that i have been too and been able to slide on! The track is so smooth and i know from first hand experience as i crashed there and slid on my stomach without my sled under me for a couple of curves. Towards the bottom of the track you know that you are going so fast and just holding on for dear life. It was a pretty good week that we were there even with my crashing moments! But i love the track!!!

Get excited

So as I aim to please I have been quite the slacker of sorts lately and not updated since the start of the new year and that was nearly 5 months ago... Over the next few days I will be posting what has been happening the last little bit and showing some of the things that I did this season. So mom get super excited!!!