We are all safely in our farmhouse near Rumford, Maine.
It was an amazingly easy trip considering we are trying to move 18 people, 12 ski bags, 2 benches, 5 wax boxes and everyone's personal bags via car, plane and minivan over 2000 miles!
Often the worst part of the trip can be actually getting through security at the airport. We only had a couple of hick-ups there. The security guard didn't like Jacob's and Joe's ID's and had to call a superior, apparently the old Wyoming licenses are tricky. Marie was grilled as to her age, they must have thought she was an unaccompanied child despite the fact that the security guard had her ID in his hands! Once Joe managed to get through the first checkpoint he put his ID and credit cards in his shoe. The shoe flipped out of the box inside the x-ray machine and dumped his cards out. He managed to find everything except his credit card, they slowed down the line as he and several security people probed the depths of the x-ray machine to find it. Patrick also got slowed down but actually didn't have any trouble with security, just unlacing and lacing his boots took quite awhile!
On the whole though things went well and we all made it through will no tears.
Picking up the vans with Enterprise was easy and wonderful, what a great company! All of us stuffed ourselves into 3 minivans and went to a grocery store, got food for 5 dinners as well as lunch and breakfast, ate at a Denny's and finally found our way to the Farm. What an awesome place! Everyone who wants a bed to themselves has one and there are 2 fridges and 2 stoves. There is a hot tub and a sauna and a pool table. Generally it is an awesome place and perfect for making us feel at home and relax.
We slept in this morning and went up to the nordic venue at Black Mountain. After trying to get information from an extremely unfriendly woman in the alpine lodge we managed to find some extremely helpful women at the nordic venue and got a chance to ski the course. It is beautiful out here! There is probably 4 feet of snow, huge piles everywhere. We used hard wax to classic ski today. The most amazing skiing we have ever seen in the East, it's wonderful!
The trails are also wonderful. Rachel skied here as a Junior and described the trails perfectly. They are great fun with rolling up and downhills, nice and wide and challenging. Should make for some really great races.
Joe, John and Adam are making a Mongolian grill dinner tonight and then we'll start the racing prep in earnest.
Keep tuned for more updates!
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