By Adelaide Ponte Usdin and Wendy Ponte We slept until 3:00 P.M. today! This isn’t really surprising when you consider the type of day we had yesterday and the fact that we didn’t really close our eyes until around 4:00…
By Adelaide Ponte Usdin and Wendy Ponte February 9, 2014 As you may recall from our last post, we survived a 2 hour and 40 minute ride with a lost cab driver trying to find our new hotel, only arrive…
by Adelaide Ponte Usdin and Wendy Ponte February 9, 2014 We haven’t mentioned in our previous posts just how hard it has been to get back to our hotel every night. After a certain point, the hotel shuttle (which did…
By Adelaide Ponte Usdin and Wendy Ponte We headed directly to the Olympic Park after waking up today via the train. The train follows the coast very closely, sometimes just twenty-five feet from the edge of the Black Sea. Along…
By Adelaide Ponte Usdin and Wendy Ponte Finally after a huge nights sleep we woke up and went to breakfast! The hotel redeemed itself quite a bit because the food was really good. Everything from cheese to bread was there.…
Photos and Blog by Adelaide Ponte Usdin and Wendy Ponte Our landing in Sochi has been rough, to say the least. Fortunately not our actual landing. In fact, that was quite spectacular because the plane heads out over the Black…
By Adelaide Ponte Usdin and Wendy Ponte February 5, 2014 To say we are excited does not truly express the myriad of feelings we are experiencing as we begin our adventure to the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia. First there…
by Jacquelyn Thayer | Photos by Robin Ritoss & Liz Chastney On day 11 of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, 24 teams representing 15 countries will take the ice at the Iceberg Skating Palace. This year’s roster includes…
Article & Photos by Melanie Hoyt The novice dance event at the 2014 Canadian Tire National Figure Skating Championships featured only one team returning from last year’s novice-level championship. That team, Québec’s Valérie Taillefer & Jason Chan, came out of…