Salt Lake

A bit of a long weekend in Salt Lake City. The Daughter's team had a rough meet. To start off, one of their top all-arounds whacks her head on the vault table during warm-up and clearly has a mild concussion. She goes ahead and competes, but then starts feeling nauseous, so they have to substitute other team members for the other events. There are big errors on every event, and although The Daughter did a fine beam routine, the team, and any chance of qualifying for Nationals, goes down in flames pretty fast. We were staying at a condo in Park City, which was really quite nice, although we didn't have enough time to enjoy the place. The University of Utah was awesome and it was really a pleasure to watch them. I wish I had shoulders remotely like those of their top gymnast, who by they way won the all-around. Anyway, the U of U and Brigham Young qualified for Nats this year. Florida, Georgia and LSU are also going.

There was still snow on the slopes in Park City., and in the morning we could see people up there skiiing and snowboarding. Rumors of this part of Utah being "dry" proved to be completely unfounded and in fact I enjoyed a couple of nice Porters while I was there. We returned around mid-afternoon on Sunday after a nice flight in First Class. They showed "National Treasure" both coming and going, and so I watched it twice while The Wife worked on a quilt. I enjoyed the movie, actually. A few minutes ago, I called The Daughter and found out that a snowstorm in Denver had cancelled their flights and they were stranded in Salt Lake for another day. Luckily, they got to use the Condos that we were in (one of the team parents apparently has connections there), so I'm really glad that they got to see the mountains. I don't know how they manage school, though, when they miss so many days of class. At least the fact that they didn't qualify for Nationals this year means their season is over and they can concentrate on school for a while.

I have had just a bit too much wine tonight and will probably hit the sack in a few minutes. The Wife is off to Washington DC tomorrow morning, so I'll be up around 5 a.m. to drive her to the airport, after which I'll stop at Jefferson Playground and see if I can get in a training ride before the predicted rainstorms move in. After two days off the bike, I feel fat and lazy as usual. Robin said he has a Chris King headset he will give me. I took my Campi headset apart on Thursday and it is totalled, so I absolutely need a new headset if I expect to keep riding the bike.