The Olympic Village Life!!

I meant to add some pictures to give you some sort of idea of the make up of the village but there are so many rules and restrictions on what we can blog about so I decided to just tell you some of my adventures and maybe put up some pictures at a later time...
When we arrived at the Olympic Village a couple days ago we arrived in style sporting some new gear provided by Nike, that day we were known as the team in black..Coincidently, the USOC staff here in the village also was wearing black as their color of the day so we were on top of it..We were assigned our apartments when we arrived so the first thing we did, or I did was scope it out and see which rooms were best...Betsey and I were fortunate enough to get a room with a bathroom, kind of like a master suite...nice, huh...There are three rooms per aparment and a common area..China did a good job with the apartments..After settling in and decorating our apartments with some patriotic decorations we headed to the dining hall because we were starving...After our dining hall extravaganza (the food has been great, no complaints) we ventured around the village, acted like tourist by taking a million pictures..At one of our picture moments, the Village daily photographer thought we were a lively bunch so she took pictures of us and we were in the paper the other day..Im sure most of the teams are jealous that us the American water polo team was in the Village Daily,looking fly with our gear on.. That day we ran into so high profiled athletes like Rafael Nadal and Pau Gasol, Im not going to lie we did go up to them and asked them to take pictures with our team..Im sure they are now afraid of the that water polo team dressed in black..but they were very pleasant and put up with are many request of individual photos....So after our first afternoon in the village, we called it a night and were lucky enough to sleep in and enjoy our day off the next day...
The rest day consisted of finding the post office to get some post cards and stamps and making a pit stop at the venue store to buy some cool beijing momentos...After running around the previous day we took it easy and were getting ready for the next day which meant back to business as usual with two practices awaiting us..
Since then we have been training and having an occasional tourist moment only when the dream team walked into the dining hall last night..Lebron, Kidd, Boozer, Anthony and Wade were very gracious to the american water polo team that travels in a pack and asks for various photos...
Today we were able to practice and scrimmage in the Venue pool against Australia..We had a slow start but ended in a tie 9-9..Today gave us a reminder of what we are doing here..we are here to play good water polo and handle our business in the pool....
Go team USA!!!!