by Adelaide Ponte Usdin and Wendy Ponte February 16, 2014 Today has been a good day! Two good things have happened: a new hotel and Ice Dancing! What more could a person need? This morning we moved to the Radisson Blu…
by Adelaide Ponte Usdin and Wendy Ponte February 14, 2014 We want to start off today by saying Happy Valentines Day to everyone! Today we saw no live skating but we did watch it in a very cool place! It…
by Adelaide Ponte Usdin and Wendy Ponte We took yesterday off! We saw no events, entered no trains, and just stayed in our hotel complex. Adelaide did homework, we worked out (it’s funny that the towels are tiny and you…
by Adelaide Ponte Usdin and Wendy Ponte February 11, 2014 Today the United States won its first ever Gold in Luge singles, and it was by a woman, Erin Hamlin of Remsen, New York. Woo hoo! This has been a…
By Adelaide Ponte Usdin and Wendy Ponte We slept until 3:00 P.M. today! This isn’t really surprising when you consider the type of day we had yesterday and the fact that we didn’t really close our eyes until around 4:00…
By Adelaide Ponte Usdin and Wendy Ponte February 9, 2014 As you may recall from our last post, we survived a 2 hour and 40 minute ride with a lost cab driver trying to find our new hotel, only arrive…
by Adelaide Ponte Usdin and Wendy Ponte February 9, 2014 We haven’t mentioned in our previous posts just how hard it has been to get back to our hotel every night. After a certain point, the hotel shuttle (which did…
By Adelaide Ponte Usdin and Wendy Ponte We headed directly to the Olympic Park after waking up today via the train. The train follows the coast very closely, sometimes just twenty-five feet from the edge of the Black Sea. Along…
By Adelaide Ponte Usdin and Wendy Ponte Finally after a huge nights sleep we woke up and went to breakfast! The hotel redeemed itself quite a bit because the food was really good. Everything from cheese to bread was there.…
Photos and Blog by Adelaide Ponte Usdin and Wendy Ponte Our landing in Sochi has been rough, to say the least. Fortunately not our actual landing. In fact, that was quite spectacular because the plane heads out over the Black…