Day 1 in Calgary

Hello! After a long day of traveling, we're all pretty well about ready to hit the sack here for a good and much needed 12 hour sleep! We had a 4:00am departure from Wolfville this morning, so needless to say, it's been a long day and by this time, everyone is perhaps just a little grumpy. I'd say that's fair considering firstly, we were an hour delayed landing and spent the first 45 minutes in Halifax, sitting in the plane on the runway, de-icing. This added to the already 4 1/2 hour plane ride. No biggie though. SO we get up in the air, and I'm getting into a great sleep, and all of a sudden I'm awoken by Lindsay yelling at the top of her lungs, "IS THERE A DOCTOR ON THE PLANE!?" At the sound of this I almost had a heart attack because I thought one of our coaches got injured or something, but it turns out that some man fainted and was slightly convulsing on the floor. Good thing head therapist Jim was there to save the day. After that all settled down, the rest of the flight was good. We FINALLY arrived in Calgary, fully ready to eat something. First we waited for our trusty mascot (who traveled all the way with us) to find his family and then we parted. The University held a pancake breakfast that we got to attend although they held the food there an extra 2 hours or so just for us and our delayed flight. I may or may not have eaten about 7 sausages and 2 helpings of pancakes?....After arriving at the hotel,  we all crashed for about 3 hours until practice. We had a great shoot around in the Calgary gym which is an awesome gym. Got a good feel for the rims, shook out the legs, and built up some energy. Coach of course got n interview about who knows what. Finally, after our eventful day, we sat down to a great team meal @ a steak house, Nick's, and we're starting to wind down here now. Trying to get everyone to bed early because we have a bit of sickness, mostly from lack of sleep and travel, so time to recoop. Tomorrow should bring a great day for focus and preparation for the game the next day though. Anyhow, Kristy and I are bout to put on some March madness and get to sleep.
I'll catch up on the other side. I'm out.

Emma Duinker #12