Rain on the metal roof this morning. It was really hard to drag out of bed. Rhonda and I decided to forgo the trek to the dining hall at the WAV and ate at the dining hall at Creekside instead. Not as much variety but it will do. This was our first experience with rain since arriving. So far the weather has been all over the place, tons of snow, warm, cold, fog, but no rain untill today. And it poured. I was assigned with Megan to the bottom of the trail, basically where people get off the bus - all the way up to where the ticket entry is partway up the trail. Mark was assigned to the lift, just below us. The ticket entry tents are where people have to decide if they are going to walk up the trail, or take the lift up from that point. People were coming very ill prepared for the weather today - jeans, sweats,
high heels - you name it. Of course, most were well prepared, but there were plenty of idiots. We tried to stay in the tents and under the lift most of the time, but there were plenty of times we were just out in it. We made the best of it. We had picked up some small thin plastic rain parkas at morning registration and put them on over our uniforms, which were anything but waterproof, and over the packs to try to keep dry. At some point, Megan and I started collecting rain parkas and handing them out to the most miserable looking spectators, who we knew were going to get soaked - I mean really, we figured it was preventative medicine... preventing hypothermia. Then we realized that people would actually
give us pins for the rain parkas! We did quite well in the pin department today. Bad,
bad Megan and Randi!!
We were treated to dinner by VANOC at the Creek Bread Restaurant. This was for all the medical personnel stationed at Creekside. I'd say there were probably about 50 people there. Our team alone went through about 8 different pizzas. We sampled them all! Doc Hailey picked up the wine tab for our team. Spec Med has really bonded now into a cohesive team. In fact, members of other teams have mentioned they are jealous that we hang out and do so much together as a team. Apparently the other teams aren't really hanging out together after shifts.
There was a big drawing after dinner, and they gave away a bunch of neat stuff. Our team made our pretty well. Hailey and I won "The Red Mittens" which are now unavailable. Initially VANOC ordered about a million of them, ended up selling four million, and still ran out. So they are still in high demand. Stas won a wallet with the Olympic rings on it. Andy won a bottle of commemorative Olympic wine.
Another great evening. Still raining a little bit tonight. Rain on the metal roof to fall asleep to.......
