We're pretty soggy....

Another rainy day as Richard has already told you. The good news is that as we were leaving the venue the rain was turning to snow. Our race course will be in use tomorrow by the Nordic Combined skiers but since we have the day off, we won't see it. It will be nice on Monday to FINALLY be part of an actual Olympic event with medals and all. We just looked at our Monday schedules and Richard has a pretty good location on Monday to see the action but I'm not as fortunate. Oh well...

We received a list today of all the members of our marshal team - including the 2 supervisors, we are 45 strong (actually only 43 until next week when the last 2 arrive). Not at all surprising that we have 2 supervisors for two reasons - they need to float around the course checking all stations and it is quite a bit of territory to cover plus they are both putting in incredible hours and do need some time off! Our shifts start as early as 7 a.m. and end as late as 4 p.m. and one of them has to be there earlier and probably last to leave. So far the only advantage I've seen to being a supervisor is that their accreditation includes access to the athletes' compound. We don't need to speak to the athletes but since our briefing trailer is at the south end of the compound, going through it is the shortest route to getting to most of the course. If we can't go through, then we have a very roundabout route that includes a mean set of metal stairs. They are trying to get some "upgrade cards" which will allow holders of one of them and a valid accreditation card to go through the compound. They are transferrable so can be given to marshals going to positions near the start.

Richard and I were given a special assignment this morning. We inspected one of the spectator pathways for holes (where the snow has melted away) that might trip up someone. We only found 1 today but also found a part of the course that was missing a piece of fencing.

We arrived home to wonderful cooking smells and were invited to join the family for dinner. The "Homestay" programme requires that the host family provide a bedroom, bathroom facilities and continental breakfast. Being invited for dinner is the hosts' perogative. Providing laundry facilities is not mandatory but our hosts have told us to go right ahead so I'll be doing a load or two tomorrow before we head to Whistler.

Going through security today, Richard was 'lucky' enough to be picked for "mag and bag" which means that once they had scanned his accreditation, he had to go through the magnetometer and have his bag checked. I went ahead because we were already getting close to being late. Hard to be on time when the bus leaves Squamish 10 - 15 minutes late. It appears that they've miscalculated how long it takes the bus to make the round trip so the buses aren't returning to Squamish fast enough.

That is about it for today - it was much like the first 3 days but as I said our next work day is a medal event day.