Individuals at last

Good afternoon!

It is now the night of Wednesday since my night last night revolved around too much alcohol into a very tired, sore and painful body that collapsed and wouldn't take it so my morning came with a too over-tired body and sickness I did not enjoy one bit.
Because of this I slept in later then the rest and joined them at the individual finals half way through.

I want to mention that Canada did extremely well, they tried they're hardest and because of the issues with Tiffany's horse we came 5th out of 18 countries teams and that was with 3 riders! Not bad for the Red and White I don't think!

I showed up at the Greenwich olympic stadium in the team pants for Canada in Beijing (if you haven't seen them please do google as I have packed them and don't have a photo), Dylan was in a red leotard and black shorts, running shoes and a cape, Wade was dressed in running shoes, red shorts and a red canada shirt with a flag draped over his shoulders, mel had a hockey jersey on and we were obnoxious!

Congrads to all the riders today, it ended with a run for 2nd and 3rd in the jump off seeing Cian O'Connor getting a little more speed then air, knocking the front rail of the last jump down and placing him 3rd, not bad out of 45 individuals! Ian was tied for 9th, which was great, he was great and we are all very proud of him and Nick Skelton, last man in the ring would have had it BUT... took a skinny jump down and had to go home with 5th place, a gold and 5th isn't bad Nick. Don't worry.

The rest of the day was easy, the walk home from the show was met by hunger and hunger was cured by amazing pizza in town. We went home and changed out of our ridiculous (but awesome) outfits and Wade and I walked down to the rail station and took the tram to London Bridge where we grabbed a cap and headed to Harrods big mall/store thingy. Links of London is where we got a few nice gifts for Wade's sisters and mothers, as well as a present for mumz and a little something for myself, each of which have the Olympic symbols and etc to remember our amazing trip to England!

After a quick tram back and a nice Mexican dinner we all came home and packed and hit the hay, it will be a long few days of travel but we are extremely excited to see some new things and have fun, can't wait to see my Lance in Dublin, I'm craving one of his big hugs.


Cheers for now





-Hero