Day 3

Wow, the day went fast. I'm sitting here with Jim Shea - Jr. , 2002 Olympic Gold Medalist. We were at the Medals Ceremony the night he won the Gold Medal in Salt Lake. It was unbelieveable, now we're both sitting working on computers side by side. The Jr. is important to know, because tomorrow you will see the photo of Jim Shea Sr. and Jr. His dad was two time Olympian and his Grandfather was a two time Olympic Gold Medalist. They are the only family that has three generations of medalists.

It's almost 1:00 AM and this is the first chance we've had to get close to a computer, and give you an update. We are back at USA House after going to Club Bud. Ran into all of the Olympic Champions. It was great. We did not start out today with a ticket to an event, so Barb talked Toby into going to see Curling. Barb thought it was great. Toby was not so sure. The USA women's team played Italy. Team USA won 11 to 3 over Italy. This was the first time we have ever seen Curling. The most interesting thing we learned about Curling is that you can quit if you want to. After we got to 11 points, Italy decided to call it quits. We sat with a group of people who were from Great Britain. The one guy's son is the Skip on the men's team. We learned a lot about Curling. There's a lot of strategy like chess.

But the highlight of the day was when we were on a tram going to Curling, we ran into Peter and Paula, Rusty Smith's parents. Rusty was the bronze medalist in 2002 for Short Track Speed Skating. The one ticket we did not get, that we really wanted to go see, was Short Track Speed Skating. So we're on the tram, and they mention that they have extra tickets to the night of the Short track relay. On February 25th it's the 500 meter Mens final and the 5000 meter Mens Relay. It's crazy to watch the relay. There are five teams on the ice at the same time. And it's on the size of a Hockey rink. So Peter sold us two tickets!