The sun was shining, (at least in the morning) the birds were singing (just far away from the crowds) and the Canadian contingent was cheering at full volume.

Today was day 2 of divisioning which saw our athletes compete in the 400, 1600, 100 and 4×100m races.  The bad news was that our 4×100 team was disqualified when Ashley McLeod and Courtney Cook missed a tag.  At this point it is unclear if they will be able to move on.  All other athletes had a good day with many taking time off their submitted times.

On the personal end of things, Jonthan had a fun day playing in the snow.  In the morning, he amused himself by pulling Abigail around in the sled.  In the afternoon, he was occupied by playing in the snow with Courtney Cook’s younger sister, Sydney.  Needless to say, when he got back to the hotel room, he flaked out early.  Since we got back to the hotel room around 3:30, I had time to head out to get a few caches.  The only frustrating thing about that is I’ve got a whack of travel bugs to drop into caches and all I was finding was micros!  Ah well, there’s still time and plenty of caching opportunity ahead.

Back at the hotel, it was some challenging times trying to access the internet yesterday and this morning.  Last night I was talking to the desk clerk and after identifying myself as a techie, he took me to the only room he had access to so I could reboot one of the wi-fi routers.  A few hours later, it was down for the night again.  So this morning, before heading out, I was asked to have a look at their network again.  The owners had heard the story from the night before and were excited to have someone who knew what they were doing staying with them.  (Because they didn’t.)  So I spent a good 45 minutes this morning trying to track down the source of the problem and finally got it solved.  (No network drops all day.)  They were so appreciative that they gave us a bit of a discount off our room.  Can’t beat that!

Anyways, I’ve got some photos to upload, enjoy them when I get them into the gallery.

These are a couple of links to local news media that are covering the games.

http://www.idahostatesman.com/specialolympics/
http://www.ktvb.com/news/special-olympics/