Kiki's Olym-Pics

Our first Olympic event was a Biathlon on the first Tuesday of the first week. We had great weather and we met tons of cool euro types, as you'll soon see. Actually, this is two separate Biathlon's worth of pictures: men's and woman's pursuit, and the men's and woman's individuals a couple of days later.

The Germans rock Biathlon. Here's Kian with a German woman
wearing Kati Wilhelm hair and a patriotic outfit. She gave Kian a bag
of gummi bears but he didn't like them, lucky me.

The Norwegians were there in big numbers too, of course, and the
lady nearest in the picture adopted Kian for part of the day.

The French weren't in huge numbers but they raced successfully
and this little troupe made a lot of noise.

Kian cheered heartily for the Americans.

Poor little guy didn't know that the USA isn't
much of a force in the biathlon scene. Yet.

So he joined the international scene, and is seen here waving the
Union Jack with some little Limey's who really took a shine to him.

And here's Cedric the little Swiss boy who Kian invited aboard. They
charted the biathlon waters for awhile but hit the doldrums and Cedric
abandoned ship. Or was he kian-hualed?

Master and Commander.

A biathlete shooting prone is etched in the snow.

Here's the only pic of daddy skiing even after dozens of
hours logged: great weather, great terrain, mostly great snow.