Florida week 1

To be completely hontest, this blog is later

than usual because I simply didn't feel like writing it. This is absolutely not due to the fact that I don't have anything exciting to write about, but purely because too many exciting this are happening and I didn't want to take time out to write :)

Since I do want to share some of my great

experiences with you guys I'll quickly tell something about each day and of course add some pictures to make you jealous.

On Monday I arrived pretty late in the

Thank you 'Sinterklaas' ;)

evenig local time, so from the airport, we went straight to a restaurant to catch up and have dinner. Afterwards it was time to get a house tour, and of course celebrate 'Sinterklaas'! We played a fun quizz game to decide who gets to pick out a present and spent the evening unpacking presents and and reading the poems that went with them and it was so much fun. In the end I was up for almost 24 hours, so I figured that I'd sleep up untill a normal time in the morning and not have a bad jetlag, but I did wake up pretty early and felt jetlagged for a couple of days.

On Tuesday I wanted nothing more than to ski, even though the weather wasn't too great,  but it had been too long ago since I had skied, so we went! On this day, we wanted to go to the mall too, so it would be good to ski in the morning. However, it was raining pretty bad, so we waited for as long as possible. When we went out to ski, there was some showers, so my first set in Florida was in the rain... Because of a thunder storm, I only skied once, which was tricking. We had some lunch in the food court of the mall, which I enjoyed because everything is so different than what I'm used to. This is also the main reason I'm so tired everyday and I didn't put up a blog yet. Almost everything I see and do is new and different and I want to appreciate and remember everything!

On Wednesday it was time for the serious training, we went to Vincent Soubiron at ski fluid. This was the first day skiing 4 sets in a very long time, so this resulted in some nice blisters and serious muscle aches. This was very much worth it though, because we both noticed that all the training and the changes in diet and other preperation I had done beforehand really payed off.

Thursday and Friday were similar, but more sore. 4 sets of training on both days, and even though I'm not completely where I left off 3 months ago, I'm happy with the level I got back to after just 3 days. It was also great to see some team members again, who I saw last when we were training in France. The only down side is that it was a pretty cold week with some showers, which is not what I expected after travelling all the way here. Still it's wayyy better to ski here than in the Netherlands, so I won't complain about that anymore!

Lastly, on Saturday, I skied my first slalom set back on the lake where I'm staying. I also got a membership to the fitness, which is a 15 minute bike ride away, so I went there twice during the time that we were actually 'home'.

So far there is so much to enjoy and so many things to talk about that I can't possibly mention everything. Bottom line though, is that I'm thouroughly enjoying every single minute here and look forward to everything that's still happening in the coming weeks!