Friday

Lovely dinner at Melanie's last nite with even Patrick's parents for pizza - hadn't had that in 5 months!!! tasted good!!  Melanie is still doing better than even I expected so that is really good!!!

Woke up to a sunny but cold 14 degrees = fed, dropped and then left at 2:15 - thinking that we may as well stay at the barn plugged in longer -  only 1 hour 45 minutes and we were there is beautiful weather - hard to believe people died near the same route Tuesday with the snow storm!!

The trail is starting and finishing at a slightly different spot this year because last year they were in progress of building the hotel and this year it is finished - the parking lot is huge and plenty of room and again, we are so close to the start and finish line!!  It's great but that means I won't get quite as much exercise!!!

Went to the driver's meeting and draw in the new hotel!!!!! my goodness - nice and even has an ice hotel part that you can rent for $500 a nite!!!

Randy goes out 11th out of 21 teams (we think- all in French tonite) - tell you more tomorrow!!!

 That's Randy waving to you - showing you us parked in the lot in front of the hotel - if you zoom in you can see the water park and the tubing hills off to the right in the backround

 This is the lobby of the new hotel - all those blue columns are bubbling water - must be to make you think of the water park in the next picture!

 This is looking at the indoor water park inside the hotel = amaaaaazing!!!!

That is the ice hotel room that you see out in the backround