Last of the Olympics

The day of the Super G ended up being beautiful, warm and sunny and we found a bunch of friends from Tahoe that hung and cheered with us!

I can only imagine what the extra baggage costs for these cowbells were! The Swiss are amazing fans that's for sure, any time a Swiss skier was on course, they started ringing these for his whole run and the sound drowned out the rest of the crowd!

Trevor and George Hjelte

Nate Holland, a US Team snowboarder and friend from Tahoe. He competed in the Snowboarder Cross earlier in the week but fell in the final heat...bummer!

Manny Osbourne-Paradis (Canadian racer and Marco's good bud) with Marco after the race

The scene

Later that night we booked it to go see the skeleton

Trev and I with Liz and our friend Jess in front of the lit track.

It was a pretty cool scene and made us all want to try skeleton out, but maybe at a little slower speeds...those guys were flying!!! It was hard to even get a pic as they sped by.

Ski day at Whistler/Blackcomb with Marco! Jess, in the pink hoodie is a local and was able to show us around which was awesome.

Another amazing day!

Whistler/Blackcomb is the most amazing place I have ever skied, you get two enormous and great ski areas for the price of one...all you have to do is ride the Peak2Peak tram between the two to get across to the other mountain.

Here is the Peak2Peak which kind of reminded me of something you could find in Europe. Aweseome times! Now back to real life.

More Awesome-ness

Chels and Me enjoying the Olympic warmth

The weather finally cleared enough to get off the Men's DH after 3 days of non stop rain down low.

Marco, with Mark and Renee, our kick ass Texan, long lost cousins of Rena, hosts in Whistler. Thanks, huge thanks to you both for letting us invade!

Congrats Marco, you surely have the biggest smile of any Olympian!

Dick B and Jeff R, Olympic Slippers that made Squaw Valley USA proud!

What festive atmosphere would be complete without the likes of our favorite Alaskan by way of Tahoe, Keelan McNulty!

Look in the background, seems like somebody is holding up a Marco kicks ass banner!

We miss you already Vancouver 2010

We managed to score some awesome live music too.

A Peek at our (Brief) Olympic Lives

The Men's Downhill, originally scheduled for Saturday, the 13th, was postphoned until Monday because of snow on the top of the course and rain on the bottom. So what were we to do except go powder skiing...yippy!

Here is us skiing to our powder stash...we are on Whistler mountain and you can look across the valley to Blackcomb, the best part is that this is all one gigantic mountain! All you have to do is take the Peak 2 Peak tram across the valley and you can ski a whole other ski area!

Following Liz and Trev into the woods, isn't it beautiful?

Chelsea and Liz

Check out this quick vid of Trev powder-dogging it with a little commentary from Lizard

And loving every second of it!

Our buddy Chuckie, who we met in the hot tub of our hotel and instantly had the hots for Liz. : )

Since the DH was cancelled and we had some free time (and a really nice friend who was working in the "Slide Center", home of the luge, bobsled and skeleton events) we got to check out the Men's Luge finals and it was amazing!

They are flying by so fast, you can hardly see them!

It was really fun to watch these incredibly talented athletes...this was the last turn of the course that did a full 180º turn and then the track went about 45º uphill which you couldn't see from watching on TV.

They would fly by you in the blink of an eye!

Olympic land was crazy, there was stuff happening everywhere you turned. When we came down from watching the luge we caught the last half of a free Matisyahu concert in the Village (which was awesome!)

And we found Marco there!

The Marco Rocks Fan Club enjoys a late-night sushi dinner in the Village

Then we went to the awards ceremony where they had live music every night...

This night was got to see Estelle

Here is the awards/concert podium

And of course fireworks! I love it here!

What a Trip! Here's from the beginning...

Ten days ago we set off for the Olympics to watch my brother, Marco ski in the Downhill and Super G races. It was such an amazing trip, so we'll start from the beginning with photos...

Idaho here we are! We started our trip with a visit to Trev's parents in Northern Idaho.

Schweitzer was our first stop...we got a foggy ski day at Trev's home mountain which he absolutely loved

A little walk up the road from the Robinson's ski cabin in Schweitzer with the beautiful views of Lake Pend Oreille in the background.

See I told you it was foggy!

We met up with an old high school bud of Trev's, Brian Landers, and got to ski with him which was awesome.

Hanging with Trev's dad, Rob back at their house in Coeur d'Alene

Mom Linda and their kitty Rue

Next stop was Seattle to pick up my mom and dad and Liz and off to Vancouver we went!

Olympics here we are!

This is the little Marco cardboard cutout they had at the USA house, isn't it awesome! Later dubbed "Flat Marco" : )

Liz and I posing with Flat Marco

The downhill was canceled from it's original date because of snow at the top and rain at the bottom, so we got a super-fun white-out blizzard ski day with Marco at Whistler! It was definitely our best powder day of the year so far!
L to R: Mary, Bill, Gordon Gray, Trevor, Chelsea, Marco, Liz Kenny, Keelan McNulty

Skiing! Yippy! Whistler/Blackcomb is the best ski area I have ever skied, so huge and so much to explore...Liz is scared just thinking about it!

We sported our Marco Rocks hats everywhere which ended up being the best friend-finder ever, we spotted all our friends from Tahoe who were sporting them and could always pick each other out in a crowd!

Gold-medal bobsled contenders!
Chelsea, Liz, Rena, Trevor and Paul