I’ll be on a plane back home in just a few hours. The athletes have now all left, some have more competitions, others will be home training on their own until camps in late Summer. Our leadership group will meet again in mind-May for a review of what we did well and where we could have done better. Learning from one set of games to the other is crucial in keeping up with what other countries are doing. I’ll also be back in Late April to a Canadian Paralympic Committee Board meeting to discuss how we springboard from our amazing success at home games to ensure growth of the movement.. So there isn’t really an off season for several of us! If I am successful in getting a position for the London 2012 games, the first site visit will likely be this August or September.
We had our mission staff dinner last night. It’s a tradition for us to have a big bash before we all go our different ways. It’s part of a grieving process really – there is nothing like a Games atmosphere and over these last three weeks, we really developed a family spirit but it’s now time to let go.
We took the gondola up Grouse Mountain for a Fondue dinner. It’s a very nice restaurant with a stunning view of the city on a clear night.  For some reason, there was no rush hour traffic today and we made it across the bridge in no time – the Gods must have been with us. We’ll take it as a good omen for our future endeavours.
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