My favorite Winter Olympic sport is the women’s ice hockey. They play with true love of the game and for each other. The USA team won all their preliminary games by big scores of 5 or more goals with only one goal scored against them in the first game.

Yesterday, the USA women were challenged by the Canadian women. Canada had a 1 – 0 lead with only 2 minutes left in the final period when USA tied it up to go into overtime.

In overtime, whoever scores first wins and Megan Keller put in the winning shot (picture above) to give the USA women the gold medals.

During the medal ceremony when the flags were raised and the American anthem was played, all the team women, their coaches, and all the USA supporters in the crowd sang along loudly. It was an emotional moment.

While you read this, Chris and Deborah are flying from Qatar to Dallas and then to St. Louis. God willing, they should be home by tonight. It’s been great adventure for them and we’re sure they will be completely worn out. Fortunately, neither will have to work until Monday so they have two days to rest.

In Cairo they visited the classic Egyptian sites. First, the pyramids.

They even got to go inside one of the pyramids.

Of course, the Sphinx.

And even a camel ride.

Good news when we take our dogs with us …