Chapter 6: Royalty
Hello Everyone.
I know it may seem like I have fallen off the face of the earth. But here I am. We are in the middle of competition now and the days are long and extremely busy. Today, I actually managed to wrap things up early and walked in my door at 4. I sat down on my bed, laptop on my lap ready to get busy writing, only to get woken up 4 hours later by my roommates who found me curled up amongst my cell phones and laptop, sound asleep.
I had massive food poisoning of some sort the night before and was throwing up for hours. It was one of those where you don't know whether to sit or kneel...graphic I know.....horrendous. I finally called an emergency nurse hotline and spoke to one of the nurses on call. She informed me that given my symptoms, if I was unable to keep any fluids down within the next half hour, that I should head to the ER. Luckily I managed to keep down a couple sips of water and fell asleep. I struggled through the next day and have to say I am feeling much much better now. I don't know how these people do it, averaging 2-3 hours of sleep a night. I simply can't, and quite frankly don't want to do it.
We have one more day of competition tomorrow, and then we have a dark day which means...DAY OFF. Oh, I can hardly wait. I have it all planned out: I'm going to sleep in until at least 7 (hehehe) and then have a nice leisurely breakfast followed by a nice long bath. I have the last pile of paperwork for the attorney to finish on Monday but the timing on everything looks good, and I should return to beautiful sunny CA before too long..
Today was a very special day. We had the King and Queen of Sweden in the lounge as well as their son, the prince . I spoke with Her Majesty herself about the weather and the events. She was very personable, but you could definately feel the air of royalty about her...powerful energy! The King was very nice as well. Very humble and kind people. Their bodyguards had come through the lounge several days prior checking everything out and I spoke with one in particular on several occasions. A very nice gentleman who also trains police dogs. We talked a lot about training and came to realize that we both use the same approach: patience, persistance and positive reward. Awesome!
The Prince of Monaco was also here, as well as many very powerful and impressive figures. It was a spectactular day of competition, with about 5000 spectators. Tomorrow is a killer day because we have two-day run. Today was the Women's Super G and tomorrow is the Men's Combined. I never realized how impressive downhill skiing is, and how dangerous. The track is so slick. It's basically like a skating arena on a mountain side. So when they fall travelling at 100 miles an hour, it's like hitting concrete. I guess that's what makes the victory so sweet.
I miss you all so much and I can't wait to get my ass home and in the saddle!!! Love to you all, and I will write some more monday!!
Love, Verena
I know it may seem like I have fallen off the face of the earth. But here I am. We are in the middle of competition now and the days are long and extremely busy. Today, I actually managed to wrap things up early and walked in my door at 4. I sat down on my bed, laptop on my lap ready to get busy writing, only to get woken up 4 hours later by my roommates who found me curled up amongst my cell phones and laptop, sound asleep.
I had massive food poisoning of some sort the night before and was throwing up for hours. It was one of those where you don't know whether to sit or kneel...graphic I know.....horrendous. I finally called an emergency nurse hotline and spoke to one of the nurses on call. She informed me that given my symptoms, if I was unable to keep any fluids down within the next half hour, that I should head to the ER. Luckily I managed to keep down a couple sips of water and fell asleep. I struggled through the next day and have to say I am feeling much much better now. I don't know how these people do it, averaging 2-3 hours of sleep a night. I simply can't, and quite frankly don't want to do it.
We have one more day of competition tomorrow, and then we have a dark day which means...DAY OFF. Oh, I can hardly wait. I have it all planned out: I'm going to sleep in until at least 7 (hehehe) and then have a nice leisurely breakfast followed by a nice long bath. I have the last pile of paperwork for the attorney to finish on Monday but the timing on everything looks good, and I should return to beautiful sunny CA before too long..
Today was a very special day. We had the King and Queen of Sweden in the lounge as well as their son, the prince . I spoke with Her Majesty herself about the weather and the events. She was very personable, but you could definately feel the air of royalty about her...powerful energy! The King was very nice as well. Very humble and kind people. Their bodyguards had come through the lounge several days prior checking everything out and I spoke with one in particular on several occasions. A very nice gentleman who also trains police dogs. We talked a lot about training and came to realize that we both use the same approach: patience, persistance and positive reward. Awesome!
The Prince of Monaco was also here, as well as many very powerful and impressive figures. It was a spectactular day of competition, with about 5000 spectators. Tomorrow is a killer day because we have two-day run. Today was the Women's Super G and tomorrow is the Men's Combined. I never realized how impressive downhill skiing is, and how dangerous. The track is so slick. It's basically like a skating arena on a mountain side. So when they fall travelling at 100 miles an hour, it's like hitting concrete. I guess that's what makes the victory so sweet.
I miss you all so much and I can't wait to get my ass home and in the saddle!!! Love to you all, and I will write some more monday!!
Love, Verena
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