First Ski Day

Sleeping better now, I went to bed around midnight last night and woke up at 6.00am and then got up at 7.15am
I put the tv on to a music station although I think it was a country music tv station still....it was better than nothing.
I made breakfast then got a call from Monica Andreef a freelance journalist whom I was to go skiing with today. We arranged to meet in the lobby at 10am. Which was great as it gave me enough time to eat breakfast and then to unpack my ski equipement, trouble was that I then received another phone call from a women's magazine in the UK, I had completely forgot that she was going to ring but she said that it would only take 30 minutes or so to do the interview. An hour and 20 minutes later I finally got off the phone, my ear was so sore form being attached to the phone receiver for so long. The time was now 10.20am so I was late. I ran down to the lobby to meet Monica and say hello then I ran back to the room to sort out my ski stuff.
I decided to wear my new Ski Suit that the guys at the Canada Olympic Park gave me was great and Sam would be pleased as she hated me wearing my 80's ski outfit!
We both then set off to the Norquay Ski Area, I picked up my skis and poles from the rental shop and off we went up the hill to start skiing, it felt fantastic to finally be on my skis agian going up a real ski hill (apart from my one run for the torchlight parade at the COP on the 13th)
We skied for a few hours and we bumped into Ken Read, he was a childhood hero of mine when I first started skiing back in 1976, we skied a run with him and he's not a bad skier....for his age!
Monica and I were trying to work out how old he was Monica thought he was around 56 yrs old, I said no he must be at least 64! ...But he did look good.
We popped in the lodge for a coffee and a little rest because Monica twisted her knee when we skied through a few trees and over a couple of rocks. In the lodge I met some of the young racers from the ski club and had my photo taken with them.
Then it was back for a few more runs before Monica's knee becomes unbearable. We skied over to the old jumps, these were very special to me because I used these jumps alot during the Olympics 20yrs ago, everytime the jumping was cancelled at COP because of high wind, I used to come over to Norquay and get some sneaky practice in. It was great to stand on those same jumps now... it brought back so many memories.
We decided to call it a day as Monica's knee was starting to really hurt so we came back to Banff, Monica took me to see the Banff Springs Hotel then dropped me off at my hotel.
I quickly changed then headed into town to have a coffee and a cake a cafe on the high street. A few people saw me in there and popped in to say hello and have photos taken. Then I took a walk around Banff, bought some things for Sam and the children, had some dinner and headed back to the hotel for a session in the hot tub as my legs were tired from all that skiing.
I relaxed for a while before going to bed.