I found my least favorite thing in the world today.
I found my least favorite thing in the world today. I went to breakfast this morning after practice with my family, Lauren's family, and Greg. We had to walk outside to get to the bagel place, and I realized after about 15 seconds of being outside that my nose felt really weird. I then realized it was that my snot had frozen inside my nostril! It was the weirdest feeling ever, and it is extremely uncomfortable. I have since walked around with my sleeve jacket in front of my nose. On our way back from breakfast, we got lost inside the skyway. What should have taken us 10 minutes at the max took us around 30 minutes. I don't recommend using them.
I then found one of my favorite things in the world. I went to walk around St. Paul (all of three blocks) with Pilar Bosley and Liza Branella, and we stopped in Walgreens and Pilar picked up twizzlers that are about twice the size of normal twizzlers. So amazing! On our way back we tried to find some earmuffs in Macy's, and they didn't have any, so if anybody is looking for earmuffs, don't go to Macy's.
Our first official practice was today, and I have to say that firstly, the rink itself is really nice, and secondly that it's so darn hot out there! The Xcel Energy Center is really clean, and it's staffed by really helpful people. I knew that when I left my house yesterday that I was forgetting something, and low and behold, I forgot hard guards but remembered soft guards. Luckily there's a rubber mat walkway leading from the locker rooms to the entrance of the ice. I might want to invest in some hard guards ASAP. The rink is a little small, but has really good ice. Our practice went really well, and it wasn't as daunting as I thought it was going to be. At Lake Placid, I don't like the feeling of skating in the 1980 arena because despite the size, it feels like it's coming down on you. I carried that same concern with me today going into the practice because I wasn't sure how it would feel to compete in a huge arena. I was happily surprised that the arena felt very large and not like everything was coming down on me. The ceiling is lofty, which really helps.
We had our official draw for compulsories today. Mr. Cole is the Chief Dance Referee, so he ran our draw. I happened to be sitting in the front row of the room, so I picked the number of the person who would pick first in the draw, meaning I picked a number out of the bag, and each number corresponded to a team, listed in alphabetical order by the woman's last name. I picked 1, so that meant Liza Branella and Ben Nykiel drew first. Lauren drew for us, and she picked ninth, which means we skate in the third warm up group in official practice tomorrow morning (the latest practice--yay!!), and that also means we skate ninth in the first dance (Tango) and fourth in the second dance (Kilian), which happened to be exactly the draw I wanted for us!
I am disgustingly tired right now from today. We had an early morning, and it's only 9:20 and I'm completely beat. Tomorrow will most definitely be an exciting day, so I need to magically conjure some energy. Oh wait, I think they call that red bull.
Greg got our families a COSTCO cake (yummm) for good luck. Sadly I was too full to eat any tonight, but tomorrow is another day.
P.S. if anybody was wondering why there are Snoopy characters all around town, it's because Charles Schultz was from Minnesota.
I then found one of my favorite things in the world. I went to walk around St. Paul (all of three blocks) with Pilar Bosley and Liza Branella, and we stopped in Walgreens and Pilar picked up twizzlers that are about twice the size of normal twizzlers. So amazing! On our way back we tried to find some earmuffs in Macy's, and they didn't have any, so if anybody is looking for earmuffs, don't go to Macy's.
Our first official practice was today, and I have to say that firstly, the rink itself is really nice, and secondly that it's so darn hot out there! The Xcel Energy Center is really clean, and it's staffed by really helpful people. I knew that when I left my house yesterday that I was forgetting something, and low and behold, I forgot hard guards but remembered soft guards. Luckily there's a rubber mat walkway leading from the locker rooms to the entrance of the ice. I might want to invest in some hard guards ASAP. The rink is a little small, but has really good ice. Our practice went really well, and it wasn't as daunting as I thought it was going to be. At Lake Placid, I don't like the feeling of skating in the 1980 arena because despite the size, it feels like it's coming down on you. I carried that same concern with me today going into the practice because I wasn't sure how it would feel to compete in a huge arena. I was happily surprised that the arena felt very large and not like everything was coming down on me. The ceiling is lofty, which really helps.
We had our official draw for compulsories today. Mr. Cole is the Chief Dance Referee, so he ran our draw. I happened to be sitting in the front row of the room, so I picked the number of the person who would pick first in the draw, meaning I picked a number out of the bag, and each number corresponded to a team, listed in alphabetical order by the woman's last name. I picked 1, so that meant Liza Branella and Ben Nykiel drew first. Lauren drew for us, and she picked ninth, which means we skate in the third warm up group in official practice tomorrow morning (the latest practice--yay!!), and that also means we skate ninth in the first dance (Tango) and fourth in the second dance (Kilian), which happened to be exactly the draw I wanted for us!
I am disgustingly tired right now from today. We had an early morning, and it's only 9:20 and I'm completely beat. Tomorrow will most definitely be an exciting day, so I need to magically conjure some energy. Oh wait, I think they call that red bull.
Greg got our families a COSTCO cake (yummm) for good luck. Sadly I was too full to eat any tonight, but tomorrow is another day.
P.S. if anybody was wondering why there are Snoopy characters all around town, it's because Charles Schultz was from Minnesota.
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