Spec 9

Another day on the MAT.  We've now determined that the team stationed there has to out-do the previous team's building project.  We've had plenty of snow in the past couple of days.  Mark and I started off making a snowman, which quickly evolved into a member of the Spec Med team.  Spec 9 had a medical pack, radio harness and radio, and cool sunglasses.  He held a Kleenex box in one (tree branch) hand, and the radio mike in the other.  Today we had about 800 school kids coming to the events.  They all wanted to stop and have their pictures taken with him.  He looked great, till some little snot nosed kid decided to take him out on the way back down the path at the end of the day.  Just tackled him!  Little $%*@!

After shift we sauntered over to the  Weasel House, as usual.  Raj and I suggested we check out the medals plaza tonight.  What a blast!  We started a congo line while waiting for the medals ceremony to start and had a whole bunch weaving through the crowd.   How cool to watch the flags being raised and hearing the national anthem for the gold medal winner.  I'm pretty sure I can now hum the Russian national anthem from start to finish.  We did get to see Lauren W. get another gold medal, so we did get to see the Canadian flag raised.  We tromped around Whistler Village until late and shopped a bit.  Beer and pizza at Blacks Pub and watched the Fire and Ice show from up there.  All in all, another awesome evening with new and old friends.