Off to Denver

Derek is doing his usual busy thing of random chores and worries before we leave for a trip and I, of course, am wasting time figuring out how to create my own blog. I do need to get going on finishing packing and getting ready - so I'll make this short.

I was really excited to go to Denver over the last week, but now I'm feeling kinda nervous - just that normal tension/energy I get in my chest before a competition. The team was playing very well at our last practice, so that's great - we've come such a long way from those first tryouts. It's kind of amazing.

Have I always dreamed of going to the Olympics? Well - I have always been a huge Olympics fan - watching as much coverage as I could, being moved by all of the stories, etc. I don't think I ever thought it was in my realm of possibilities - so in that sense, I probably didn't actually dream of it. Some might say it's not really in my realm of possibilities now - but hey, we're one of 10 teams vying for the Olympic slot. We're underdogs for sure, a Cinderella story if we can do it - but we just need to win probably 5 games to make it to the playoffs and then it's one game at a time.

We're flying out of LGA and arriving in DEN at around 5:15pm MST. That means we'll miss the opening President's reception - which is really a shame, but we didn't find out about it until this Monday - too late to change the plane reservations.

Ok - off to finish packing