Watching the Olympics

Most evening nowadays we find Ericka and the boys parked on the couch taking in the winter Olympic recap. It is turning out to be educational and entertaining at the same time.

• We use it to teach some geography lessons to Mathias pointing out where the competing countries are located. 
• Mathias was excited to see that a fellow first-namer, Matthias Mayer of Austria won the Alpine Skiing event after a harrowing looking run down the mountain at Rhosa Khutor.  It made us a little bit nervous that he seemed intrigued by the possibility doing the event as himself.  
• Johan made us laugh when the figure skating came on and he asked: "where are their coats and helmets?" Where are the helmets indeed! 

We're looking forward to another week of skiing, ski jumping, hockey, figure skating, speed skating, and curling.  

Let's make some popcorn!