Thursday, January 18, 2007

I found it!...it was wrapped around my underwear...

We played our first game today against Korea and managed to pull out the win! We were all pretty nervous when it started, (Hayley the most so as she peed her pants before we went out there...not actually she just can't work a sink) and it was a big change to be announced before the game and marched in (by a tape of a bag piper and not the real thing shipped in from Scotland) but really fun to have our Canadian fan club cheering loud the entire game!
We had been told a few times by a certain Canadian curling Olympic athlete that the rink in Pinerolo was absolutely freezing! So to prepare for this Brittany brought 20 pairs of hand and foot warmers, brought 3 different thermal shirts, and thermal pair of long underwear and a few hoodies just in case that all wasn't enough. And guess what... for the first time in Brittany's life she was warm and not from the 3 thermal shirts or the hand warmers no she didn't even use any of those! She was warm because the rink is fricking hot! And I'm not going to even going to mention the other three of us who acutally have to do some physical activity on a surface where it seems physically impossible for the ice to still be frozen.
Last night was the opening ceremonies and we discovered the reason we were picked up four hours prior to the start of the event...to become very farmiliar with our seats. we got to the arena at around 4:45, were brought to our seats and told to not get up unless we needed to go to the bathroom. After about an hour of sitting a very smart individual (Canadian of course) whipped out a couple beach balls and started whacking it around the crowd. This helped the next hour go by a bit quicker! We were then sent to a room to pick up a bagged lunch (which four out of five of us thought tasted like ass...clearly one person has better tastes above the rest!) and shipped down to the basement to wait for another hour where more beach balls miraculously appeared... and a kangaroo! We were then lined up in alphabetical order and got ready to march into the arena. I don't think I have ever seen such a loud and rowdy group of Canadian fans! Our families managed to get seats in the very front row and were completely decked out from head to toe in Canadian gear...it was awesome to see. We then went back to our seats to watch the entertainment portion of the show. Which to quote Paul, "was filled with symbolism we are still trying to understand" and Steve may have fell asleep during the show.
Tomorrow we have two games against Great Britain and Japan! Hopefully we will be able to have a couple more smints tomorrow!

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

We are very pround of you, keep up the good work girls!!!

Love
the Gregor Home

Anonymous said...

Salut Katrine et encore bravo à toute ton équipe.

De oncle Christian et tante Jocelyne, Gabriel et Audrey-Maude

Anonymous said...

Great game girls! We are proud of you! Looking forward to watching your games on Sunday!

Love Diane and Shannon

Tanner said...

Great game girls! We're all proud of you back here in Carbon! Don't forget to enjoy yourselves while you're there, and bring back LOTS of pictures for us! Good luck for tomorrow, we're all pulling for you!
Sheldon, Laurie, Tanner & Danika

Anonymous said...

Keep up the awesome curling girls! And keep Hayley away from the sink if you have to! (HAHAHA) Love Jan, Paul, Mitch & Cara

Anonymous said...

Congrats on the win girls!!! I was at school during the time that you were playing and so I got mom to phone me as soon as the results were out. I'm pretty sure the whole school now knows that you are in Italy!!!!
Keep up the good work!
Nick!!
P.S. Britt, I'm sure you'd be excited to hear that I think my social diploma went well.

Anonymous said...

Hey good job girls! Keep up the good work! How's all the gear? haha!!!

Matt Ng

Anonymous said...

hey awesome job gurlies!! good luck in your games today!

rachel

Anonymous said...

Good Work Girls. Keep it up.

Jason & Shelley

Anonymous said...

Kick some butt Team Gregor!

Anonymous said...

Outstanding!!!!!

We are very proud of all of you. 3 - 0 ...Great start!

Go Canada Go!

All of us at the Gregor Home!
(Including Lynn & Janice In Calgary)

Anonymous said...

YA and you won holy monkey - sooooo i called anyone in my phone who would or wouldn't care AND was working when my dad called and told me you beat japan.. SOOOOO all of the ladies at the PArisian are pumped for you (or are humoring me!) hehe BUT I AM SO PROUD keep on rollin girls

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOO IT

-Andrea

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