White Christmas / Brown Christmas

With World University Games over, people are on the move again.  Pati's visiting family back home in Switzerland and Lucky's in Schwarzwald for a few days before coming back to meet the team in Utah. I heard a rumor that Marine is already back from Europe, and spending Christmas in the Pacific Northwest. Lucky got a visit from his former teammate Lasse yesterday, who was passing through from races in Italy to more races in central Germany.  Here's the picture Lasse sent me.  The boys were relegated to running workouts because apparently there's not much snow in Fuwa City.

Meanwhile, for those of us here in Alaska, things are pretty white and wintry: