Happy easter folks.  Gabe and I are still at Copper mountain.   Last night there were fireworks once it got dark. it added to the party atmosphere of all these riders in one place.

Everyone was in a pretty good mood.. including our friend Matt.. which is kinda creepy.. Actually he’s a really funny kid.

We had a pretty big gaggle of kids over for dinner. Sure made a huge pot of spagetti then the kids all went and sat in the hot tub..

We had to start really early this morning. I went out for coffee and tea around 7.. it was quiet and beautiful out..

The guys had to be ready to go around 7L30 for their halfpipe comeptition. Here tey are putting their game faces on .

Including coach mike !

Here’s the pip.. it was huge compared to anything Gabe has ever ridden.. it was icy too. I thought he looked good on his runs !  I’m so porud of him competing .

Freinds Kaitlin and Forest came by to watch Gabe  too !

As did a big group of folks.. ok . they wern;t there to watch Gabe.. there were more than 45 competitors..in each of 2 groups..  I think

After the competition, the boys, Kaitlin and Forest came bye for lunch.. I made a pillow pile for Forest to jump into 

Sue came home late with a nice surprise for me.. She’d met these folks from a group called ‘Donor Dudes’. This guy Chris Klug is an Olympic snowboad  guy.. He competed in his first olympics while awaiting a liver transplant.. and he’s been in two Olympics since with his ndew tranplanted liver. He has a foundation that raises money to get folks to sign up to be donors. Chris comes in tomorrow.. I’ll get to meet him.  There’s also another family coming on Wed whose son was a donor.. They have a foundation like ours for Sam. I wont get to meet them.. but I’m going to leave them a letter and a samstone. 

Later in the afternoon we went to watch the awards for the day. We ran into Jerimiah who was one of Sam’s old snowboarding coaches.. He now lives in Oregon and works at Windels. 

It was good that we went to the awards.. they actually read down to 10th place.. Dylan came in 5th !!!!   and Charlie came in 8th. It was pretty cool that MMSC had two folks in the top 10 !   was proud of them !

Ah.. the kids are back.. I’m going to go with Gabe to get a movie.. More later..

Oh .. Diane is back enroute to Vermont !!! She called me from Houston and NY.. She’ll be in VT any minute..   Oh.. I can’t wait to see that girl !

OK.. Gotta run..
Nite all, Nite Sam
-me