Linden went shopping on this morning to organise a suprise present for Nadia- getting photos developed with us and Nadia. We also organised a card and bought a frame for the photo. We were just so grateful for all their support and wanted to get them something special.
We had lunch with all the competitors, coaches, and organisers and the coaches picked out the first appartus they would start on with a draw out of a hat. We also recieved a goodie bag including a shirt, make-up kit, pen, magazine, etc.
That night we transferred hotels from Norman into the city so we were closer to the competition arena. In this new hotel Linden got her own room and the girls got their own room!
The girls had the opportunity to train on the comp equipment tonight. The session was quite frenetic as everyone tried to get all of their things done. The competition gym is amazing .... all in dressed up in RED - Ross thought it was a Jets Competition ! They are expecting a crowd of around 5000 to watch the Comp. After training they jumped in the spa and after iced again... of course!
some great skills were being done in training, in particular the girls were so impressed by Jessica Lopez from Venezuela who did a superb triple twist on floor and eagle giants to jaeger followed by gienger on bars.
We went out for dinner to a cool jazz restaurant with all the international delegations and Ross ordered aligator bites which we all tried and thought it tasted like chicken! Great meals with great company- the girls got a chance to mingle with the Ukrainian girls and learn some of their language.
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