Today opened with meeting our guide and personal race concierge named Dawn. She is Chinese and Dawn is the English name she has taken. She is a lovely young lady and so very w
illing to help. We followed Dawn to the race course which takes us down a narrow switchback road and then across a busy street. If is very close and very convenient to the hotel.
illing to help. We followed Dawn to the race course which takes us down a narrow switchback road and then across a busy street. If is very close and very convenient to the hotel.
It was practice day for the GM Mixed crew. The weather was hot and humid to start the practice. After about 20 minutes the hardest rainstorm I have seen in a long time came through with rain that fell so hard is was actually beating the drum. Towards the end of practice lightening and thunder rolled in to puncuate the downburst. I have to admit that the rain was very refreshing as it took an edge off the heat.
The picture above right is of the narrow road leading to the race course and the picture above left is of the race course itself taken from the old church on top of Penha hill. The old church sits just above our hotel.
The picture to the right is of the Grand Lisboa hotel and Casino. It is one of the more unique buildings you will ever see and is an imposing landmark on the Macau skyline.
The photo below is the bridge (one of the bridges actually) between the Macau pennisula and the isalnd of Taipa which is also part of Macau.
Tomorrow is an early morning practice for the Womens teams. There is also a coaches/captains/managers meeting tomorrow morning to go over all the little items we need to know.
More news and information to come.
Larry
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