Day 3 - The first "real" work day.

Skier Days: Sara(3), Caroline(2), Susan(0), Charles(0)

Not that I want to turn this into a weather report, but the weather started out below freezing this morning and there was a nice coating of ice on the windshield. I don't actually have a scraper in my car yet (doh!) so I ended up improvising with the top of an old CD case that was stuck in the side panel. Sara was really impressed with my ingenuity. We were the only car in the lot last night and the side that was facing the sun was nice and clear. Note to self: Park car facing sun when the lot is empty. The good news is that they actually made a bit of snow last night.

Sara did a great job of getting going this morning. This first week where she can get up a bit later is a good way to ease into the routine. We actually managed to get through the nighttime and the morning ritual with relative ease. I was really sleepy this morning because I stayed up and watched the end of the MLS Cup and it went into overtime and then PKs. I felt bad for Landon Donavan, but it was a good game and it is always good to see LA lose ;)

She managed a full day of skiing and was in a couple of picture on the GA Facebook page. She looks to be doing really well and improving already. I ran out for 30 minutes and brought Sara's ski down to Jack Frost to get it looked at. Fred had sent the boys home as it was super quiet there and he felt this was going to be a pretty serious repair. He mentioned something about cutting out a larger piece and making a plug to replace it so that it would actually adhere. Looks like this ski will be getting dropped off on the way home tomorrow afternoon.

Work felt like a constant interruption today. I had a couple of phone conferences and managed to catch up on a few nagging issues, but there are a bunch of other that I don't seem to be able to get to. Hopefully, tomorrow I'll be able to check off a few more boxes. The day went amazingly fast..

I got in a little video call with Caroline for a few minutes just before dinner that was pretty funny. She had her friend Abby over and they were typically clownish. Anyways, tomorrow Sara is up early to run a file over her skis before we head down to the competition center. We put on her face guard tonight and packed her shin guards as they are doing gate for the first time!