This week was a slow week, as far as writing on the website goes. Thomas went back home 9 hours north for the week for a little vacation. So we mainly just hung out around the city.
However, on Monday we went with Kimi to Helsinki to watch the Roosters play the Butchers. It turns out that we already know the playoff pairings and we will play the Butchers in the first round and then the winner of the Roosters Crocodiles in the finals. So we were basically scouting both teams. Plus we got to see the stadium that we will play in for the final in Helsinki. Its called the "Velodrome," well because it is a velodrome. That is one of those oval bike tracks that have high banks so you can ride really fast while still making sharp turns. Its weird but I'm sure you will see some pics in a few weeks.
While we were in Helsinki we stopped at Olympic stadium. Helsinki hosted the 1952 Summer Olympics. It was pretty cool looking but not as big as stadiums in the U.S. Kimi said it was the biggest stadium in Finland. I have pictures of it posted below.
The rest of the week was filled with lifting and Madden. Oh yeah, the Olympics is on now, so that is our new obsession. Over here they show some events that they would never show in the U.S., like handball, women's weighlifting, kayaking, and judo. We get 3 different channels that show the Olympics and most of them are showing different events. We have been watching that a lot lately. However, all the channels are not in English except for 1 about 10% of the time. So we watch the games but can understand no commentary.
This week, we are supposed to go with Leo, one of our defensive lineman, to shoot some pistols and the shooting range. He works for the Finnish army so its legal. This will be interesting since I've never shot a gun before and I've been watching the pistol shooting competition in the Olympics. So I will keep you posted about that next week.
This week we play our last regular season game against the Jaguars, who we have already played this year. We beat them 37-14, but I heard rumors that they sent their American running back home because they are eliminated from the playoffs so there is no reason to keep him around. If that is true, they won't have much of an offense left. He was their main threat. After this week, we start the playoffs which will be pretty exciting. I already mentioned that we will play the Butchers, who gave us a good game the last time we played them, but looked pretty bad when they played the Roosters on Monday.
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