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It is real fun signing into blogger in another language. Finnish was near impossible, and Swedish is just fun. Of course, the things I have to fill in are the same, so if I would only remember what and where the spots I needed to fill in were, I could get by much easier. Then there is peice of mind when all the prompts are in english again once signed in. whew.
I willl just have to add a little for myself here. On one of the plane trips I saw an add for a device that records your cassette tapes into the digital medium. The add has a pile of tapes next to the machine, and then the happy product of a cd, or mp3 player on the other side of the photo. Interestingly, one of the tapes was none other than White Lion. Apparently a commercially viable product. VIN-DI-CA-TION! Thanks.
We started out with some sunny days here in Sweden, which was in direct contrast to Finland. That, and the temps did not dramatically drop with lack of clouds. Finalnd was extremely cold the day the sun came out. The sunny days in Sweden gave us a good view of the valley and the good view from the dinning room here in the hotel. The skiing was also more pleasant in unfiltered light. We don't have as easy access to as many trails here as there were in Finland. These trails are a little more challenging, especially for a sit skier. After our introduction to "all the sun", the last two days it has snowed. For how hard it appears to be snowing, I would expect us to be under four feet of snow. Somehow, all this snowing adds up to 2cm of snow. There is a big difference in Scandinavian snow and what I am more accustomed to. So far, the races have been biathlon, and some alpine: Slalom and Giant Slalom. I'm no expert on Alpine racing, so don't take my word for it. Right now the lobby is packed with alpiners. We, as nordic skiers, do our fair share of sitting around. But once the race starts, there is no sitting around. Alpine appears to have a lot more sitting around, even while the races are going. They deffinately do a lot more smoking, and drinking. It leads for interesting times when we are co-located.
Vuokatti did a fine job with feeding us. I did have to expand my definition of meals, but the variety was good, and the effort they put forth was commendable. So far we have enjoyed the change of pace the Swedes have provided. It is good food. Also the Finns don't seem to need pepper. We are glad to finally get pepper again. Still, I think the variety of food is not here, and we will be glad we are gone in two days. Both in Finland and here, the dinning rooms provided a nice leisurely meal with large windows displaying the countryside. The added bonus here, is that the dinning room is mid-slope, so we get to see some of the alpine events. This place also seems to be more of a hotel. Vuokatti was more of a sport facility -dorm style rooms, "chow hall", etc.
So far it does not seem that paralympicsport.tv will be broadcasting these events. I am quite impressed with the coverage we recieved from Vuokatti.
This link may help you;
http://www.handikappidrott.se/paralympicwinterworldcup/t2.aspx?p=1422094