Jay was up earlier than me again this morning, I heard him leave the room around 8am to go get breakfast with Grey and then they're going to go to the training pool again. I slowly woke up until at 8:30am I remembered the girls had a hockey game yesterday and because we're 8 hours ahead it was in the middle of the night here - then I hopped right out of bed and grabbed my phone to check the score. While we're gone we're missing 7 Play Off (Finals for our Division to go to the next round and then a Finals Tournament) and Play Down games (Finals for our Region to go to the Provincials tournament) and it's eating me up inside! As the Manager for the Team I book all the games, 10 in total and was able to book 3 before we left but we're still missing a lot, which sucks. They were in Napanee yesterday for a Play Off game - during the season we lost to them twice but we won the first game of the series - this game they tied 0-0 when I checked Team Snap. So, this means with 4 games down as we have 6 points as we've won 2 and tied 2 and we have 2 games to go. We have a chance of going to round 2 which starts March 11th (we're home on March 8th) - YES!, but no celebrating until we've got the last 2 games under our skates and see what the other teams pull off. Jim is the girls amazing coach and he's taking the girls to most games and practices because as much as Lindsay wants them to like her I'm not sure she's ready for this much hockey in the next 2 weeks.
Jay came back to the room for a few mins after breakfast while Grey got ready to leave, Grey said he didn't sleep well last night, only a couple of hours, so I hope that he can rest today because, like Jay, his first event is tomorrow.
They took off and I put on my big girl panties and went to the restaurant to eat. Alone. I did it, I hated every minute of it and I came back to the room to read (and write). Housekeeping came in to clean the room so I went down to the lobby and read for a bit and came back up.
Jay had told me yesterday that the little logo for the World Aquatics was a Whale Shark because apparently there is often a pod of them out in the Sea..I hadn't seen the logo yet so he sent me a picture.
Jay's back and stretching, rolling and using his massage gun and we'll head to lunch. The buffet for the athletes is great, full of fresh salads and hummus and today there was babaganoush, which I love the smoky flavour. BUT to get to the restaurant (which actually isn't just for athletes it also has guests there) you have to walk through a lounge..a smoking lounge - so gross. People just sitting in it having a drink and watching TVs and smoking - ugh.
We came back to the room after and I did some work while Jay rested and then we headed over to Jim and Maria's hotel because they just arrived from Dubai and we're going to go to a mall I found on TripAdvisor (not usually my idea of a good time but something to get us out of the hotel that doesn't involve too much) - our hotel is literally attached to a mall but instead of going there we're going to drive 25 mins to this one because it has an indoor river with gondolas!
Jim and Maria when they got to their hotel (which is attached to our hotel through the other side of the mall but we don't use the mall access to get there we walk around) were upgraded, but their upgraded room wasn't ready yet so we planned to meet them for 4:30pm. When we got to their hotel to meet them it still wasn't ready so we went up to the lounge with them and killed time for 30 mins until it was ready and then accompanied them to their room which was another 30 mins..by then Jay was done with his 'out of the hotel adventure' and decided to go back to the hotel to assume the position (laying in bed) and the 3 of us took an Uber to the mall. Turns out the mall is right beside the pool where Jay is swimming tomorrow and as we pull up I say "We probably could have come here tomorrow after Jay's race, since, you know, it's right here". Oh well, the Uber was $13 and got us out and about. We did have a hiccup when Maria's app didn't pay for the fare and none of us came to Qatar with any currency (literally Jay and I have zero dollars of any kind), Maria thankfully had $10 USD to pay with. 38 QAR was $10.30USD so the driver was fine accepting it.
Walking around the mall, which is very cool by the way, every store front is stucco and painted and fake vines with a painted blue bird sky with fluffy white clouds. We followed the river which ended near a food area with lots of different restaurants and kept joking because there was Applebees and Krispy Kreme and were like "why are there so many American chains" until we saw it - it was like the fluffy clouds parted and angels heralded as Jim said "Hey, PF Changs" - well, when in Rome...PF Changs it is, what a delightful surprise!
Jay sent me a text with a picture of our laundry returned to us, they individually wrap your undergarments in dark tissue for privacy (inside the solid bag they were returned in).
After supper we walked around some more, Maria got Baskin Robbins and took some photos - sent a few to the girls and some to share.
We Ubered back to the hotel (app paid fine this time), parted ways while setting up a time to meet tomorrow to go watch Jay's first race, the 100M Freestyle. He's not super excited about tomorrow because he's only raced the 100M twice and he's 10th fastest in his heat which means he's going to be in the outside lane and he's likely to come in about 3 body lengths behind the leader (which is fine I guess because that guy will be in a centre lane so Jay won't be able to see him anyway!).
Back at the hotel Jay has selected our 6 items for laundry and they're out in the hall, I'm a little suspect that anything of mine is in there but we shall see. I went in the room and said "Hello" and don't see him so I'm taking off my purse and wrap and he jumps up between the beds and scares the freakin' bejesus out of me. He's such a child...but makes me laugh.
It's 8:44pm and he's gone to bed now. Hopefully he gets a good nights sleep!
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