Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Austria Update

What up fools? It's Ollie, checking in from Innsbruck. I'm sitting in Dave's room in his studetenhaus (like a dorm, but shittier), digesting the delicious chicken and pasta dinner Dave made for us.

The deal for camp is that Anna, Chris, and I are crashing in Dave's buddy's apartment (10 minutes from the studetenhaus) and skiing nearly every day. We take the train to Seefeld and ski up there - all told, it probably costs like 8 bucks a day, and half the time we don't get charged to ski. It's great. Snow is money up here - we've been on Rode Multigrade Purple every day. It's warm enough for tights and shirts (except for today, which was kinda cold). Things are money, seriously.

Other than ski, we have done some sightseeing and we eat and sleep a lot. The other day we went to Intersport, this huge sports store, and scored some sweet schwag.

Last night we ran in the New Year in downtown Innsbruck with some of Dave's buddies. We watched some fireworks, listened to German bands, and made new friends. We also sang a rousing 4-part rendition of "The River."

Nabes and I only have two more days on the white stuff here, so were gonna take advantage of 'em (OD skate and 8.5k classic TT). Keep putting in those k's - racing is just around the corner.

-- O

P.S. - pictures will come, but I broke Anna's camera last night (I know, I'm an asshole), so they'll just have to wait.

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