A GOLD MEDAL DAY!

Lake Placid is nothing if it isn't Olympics crazy.  We spent some time today watching figure skaters practice at the Olympic skating rink and then we toured the Olympic Centre.  It was fun to see all the really old Olympic posters and memorabilia.  These Americans have the mistaken notion that the Miracle on Ice was the 1980 Russian/US hockey game - yeah right!

We saw an interesting film on Billy Fiske who was a gold medal bobsledder in the 1932 Olympics and later went to Britain to join the RAF at the beginning of WWII.  He was killed during a German bombing of Tangmere air base shortly after the Battle of Britain - the first American to die in that war. 

We also went for a bobsled, luge, skeleton and skijump simulator ride which was just a little scary.  It starts with the 1980 Bobsled and ends with a run down the Vancouver track.  Things have certainly become a lot faster and more technical.

On the menu tonight - BBQ Steak, baked potatoes and asparagus - Oh, the things you have to put up with when you're roughing it!

Tomorrow we're off to visit the Von Trapps - Yodeladyhoo!!!

To be continued.....