Welcome back can't wait to see some photos 
Sorry, Don. I didn't take a single photo. First, I didn't take a camera and second, I didn't turn on my phone because of malware that suspiciously appears on your phone when you activate in country. I did, however, send back over 5,539 hours of video for your viewing pleasure. Hope that you got to see a little of it. I spent most of my time at the Sanki Sliding Center up in the mountain cluster. Got to ride the train up there and back everyday (about 25 miles). Most of my friends and I stayed at The Radisson Blu Resort and Spa which is only about 3 blocks from Olympic village down in Adler. A very nice hotel. When you walked around the grounds of the resort, you might think you were in Florida with all the palm trees and tropical landscaping. All in all, I had a good experience with the Russian culture. Didn't see any frantic late construction or unfinished hotel rooms or missing door handles or anything that we were lead to believe. It seems that the only people that had trouble with their accomodations were the print media, but you have to know by now that those guys make up the words they write to make the story fit their ideologies. I didn't try any local Russian food because all of our food was shipped from home. We even had a makeshift McDonald's that went with us. Love me an Egg McMuffin and hash brown in the morning (especially when it is all-you-can-eat and free). I didn't have a language problem because we had an interpreter that sat between the director and me and did all the communication between my production van and the IBC (International Broadcast Center). OK, enough for a while. If I think of anything interesting, I'll let y'all know and if anybody wants to know anything real specific, just PM me. As someone once said, thanks for listening. Oh, by the way, I did see Vladimir Putin walking into the Laura Bi-athalon Stadium one day last week. That was the day that the Russians finished Gold, Silver, and Bronze in the para-cross country. He ignored me completely and we are still not on a first name basis or even a nickname basis. I was going to call him Vlad and he was going to call me 2DUM. Oh, well. Second, by the way. Russian mail order brides are not as easy to get or as pretty or as cheap as those magazines state.
