St. John's

PART A

Sitting here in my favourite St. John's hotel - The Sheraton (a.k.a. The Fairmount). Over the past few years I've spent many nights in this hotel and last fall it went from the very, very nice Fairmount to the Sheraton. It's still a nice hotel but I miss the little things - like late night room service - it's 11:15 p.m. and the kitchen is closed!!! Plus you have to call down to get your bed turned-down and have chocolate on your pillow . . . before I'd walk into my room and voila! there's a little chocolate on the pillow.

In spite of not having a chocolate on my pillow (prefer Tracy) I'm enjoying the trip with TracyLynn! We drove out Thursday; I had meetings tonight; terra nova baseball tomorrow and then Saturday night, we go to the SportNL Stars & Legends Awards Gala/Dinner. It should be a fun time! It will probably be a busy day but fun!

PART B

As noted, Tracy and I were in St. John's this past weekend and it was a great time! Saturday we bopped around and then I headed off for a couple of hour to coach the terra novas, while she did her own thing.

The terra novas practice was an indoor session at the new NL Sports Training Centre. It was good to get back into coaching and being around the guys. My philosophy is different, right now these are tryouts for the kids trying to make the team, so I did limited coaching. I made the odd suggestion and whatnot, but the head coach Billy, was helping 'select' players. I like Billy - very organized and smart coach, although he's not really a 'true' baseball guy but he's getting so much better. I'm an assistance and for the most part the players' coach - I have a good relationship with all but they know when they've gone to far with stuff with me. Just keeping it fun for them - serious but fun!

As for Saturday night at the SportNL Awards Dinner - we had great time! Tracy looked fabulous! She's a 'lil hottie anyway, but was looking very sexy Saturday night. At one point I looked at her I thought 'wow, I'm such a lucky guy'. We should have taken a photo of us . . . but she said we can do that any time . . . lol! I liked the fact that other men would watch (eye) her when she walk by - that's my vain-ness coming out. The dinner itself was good - although the keynote speaker went on for 50 minutes on a topic that was too academic and not right for the audience. For me, I found it an interesting presentation on LTAD, but way too long for the venue. Outside of that the night was great!

I had a great weekend. It was fun to spend a couple of days with Tracy without any other concerns. Now it's back to reality . . . ugh! The next week or so will be busy as I'm getting ready to head back to school, pay bills and take care of a few things before mid-April.