LAKE PLACIDDDD!!!!!

Hey everybody, Larissa here again!! We're here now in Lake Placid awaiting our first carnival of 2011!! I personally am excited and a little nervous! Lake Placid is AWESOME! This is my first time here and I am really enjoying all the old olympic stuff! When I was little I always wanted to be in the olympics so to see a place where it all happened is pretty wicked! We had a fantastic day today, skiing at Mt. Vanhovenburg (pardon if I butchered the spelling of that...) we pretty much skied in the massive dumping of the storm last night and it was pretty awesome! It was essentially back country skiing which is always fun! Me Sam and Kat skied to the Biathlon range and pretended to shoot with our poles which was fun :) It was a good ski which we finished with crepes and a walk around lake placid! Dinner was eventful with the setting off of the smoke alarm for the second time today, and dessert was yummy, milk shakes from Stewards! But enough about food, more about skiing! Before we came to Lake Placid on Tuesday, we started winter camp at my house in Jackson, NH! Skied for three days at Bretton Woods, which has AMAZING snow! Intervals with Lary, Sam, and Bear on Wednesday, then two longer skis on thursday with the ladies, and a 2.5 hour ski on friday to finish up our NH stay. It was fun and tiring! We headed back to SMC on friday afternoon, on our own for cooking, which is always interesting! Skied hard on saturday and sunday with an off day for me on monday. Then we came to Lake Placid which effectively leads us up to today! It's been an awesome trip so far and looking forward to the races this weekend!! Hope everyone had a great holiday season and until next time, cheers!!!