for the Nature Valley Grand Prix. The race starts tomorrow night with down town St. Paul criterium. Right now I am laying in bed listening to my ipod and messing around with my computer – so tired today. Hannah is sleeping on the air mattress near mine, in the corner. She has had the Philly SARS flu (stole that name from Mike Jones) all week and she is not doing so hot today.

We have three host kids. Two teenagers who are world class speedskaters and junior cyclists, then a little kid tame Artyom from Russia. They are cool and showed us around riding today, the mom is running the next Olympic Training Center from this house I think. The kids are also world class athletes in Dance Dance Revolution and Guitar Hero and they like to play it in our bedroom. Somehow it appears that Hannah has slept through these performances today, which is a talent in its own right.

My camera is still out of batteries, so I don’t have any fantastic pictures for anyone. I could easily get new batteries, but I am too f*@#ing poor to cough up the money. But I do have photos these from Philly:

Joining the team for Nature Valley is Marni Hambleton from Canuckia and super start Jill McLoughlin from Touchstone. Both are rock star girls and I am excited to be racing with both of them, as well as the rest of the ValueAct girls.