Lost bags? Missing rifle parts? CHRISTMAS!

Must be another day with the US Youth Team. The good news is, Tara found a spare part to put her rifle together and...well...Ray's bags are still missing. I'm sure they'll get here tomorrow...or the next day...

We are all settled in here in Nove Mesto, and are awaiting the last piece of this World Juniors puzzle: The Snow! There is very little snow here in our section of the Czech Republic, but there are people working hard to make and move snow out across the race course so that we will be able to race on Saturday.


While we wait for enough snow to race,the skiers are happy that there is just enough snow on the ground that our second Christmas was a white one. Our second Christmas was brought to us by Adidas and the USBA, and we are very very appreciative. Here's a rundown of our gear for this trip:Just in case we thought we might have to go topless we have:

• A winter Jacket
• A sweater
• Race suit top
• Warm-up jacket
• Warm-up vest
• Puffy vest
• A polo shirt
• A t-shirt
• A long sleeve shirt
• A turtleneck

A disproportionately low number of pants leaves us with:

• Race tights
• Warm-up pants
• Snow pants
  (Not to worry though, we'll tooooootally do laundry....)

Our ears and fingers will be warm with our:

• Fuzzy hat
• Brimmed toque
• Toque
• Race hat
• Headband
• Gloves
  

And just in case the jumbotron screens were going to blind us we have Adidas sunglasses with three different lenses!

It really is like second Christmas here in the Czech Republic. Now we just have to worry about fitting it all in our bags on the way home!