Asbury College at the Olympics

Just a quick update: I’m sitting on the hard tiled floor of what has become the Asbury apartment in Italy. Brandon Bigham is renting it for the length of his contract, which is from like January 20 - March 3. However, dozens of people are coming and going at different times, and that makes it pretty exciting, although very cramped. Right now it’s Brandon, Josh, J.D., Daniel (J.D.’s brother) and me. There is one double bed and one not-quite-love seat. So it’s the tile floor and some thin blankets for me. I’m looking forward to checking in to my official Olympic accommodations tomorrow.

We took Dr. Owens’ grand tour of the IBC today, which was pretty interesting. I have my accreditation and my boots, and I’ll be getting the rest of my uniform tomorrow (it looks amazing). The only problem is that the boots were designed for the red TOROC uniforms, and the TOBO uniform I’ll be getting is blue. So they kind of look like little elf boots. But at least they’ll be comfortable. I actually didn’t take any pictures in my travels around Torino today, but I’ll need to do that sometime, the Olympics stuff is really pretty nice, plus the Lingotto mall, which is where the IBC building attaches, is huge and very nice.

Tomorrow we’re going to head up to the mountain venues (about a 1.5 hour bus ride), and I’ll be able to check in at my venue, then explore Cestriere, which is where the Mountain Media Center is located. Hopefully I’ll be a little more excited about taking pictures, too. I bought 30 AAs today for 8e, and that should last me a long time. I also just uploaded a bunch of pictures from my second day in Venice, and was already reminded of how beautiful it was. Time for my last night of temporary sleeping.