Today we toured the Utah Olympic Park in Park City, UT which was the site of part of the 2002 Winter Olympics. Despite the many times we have been in Park City before, we had never been to this facility. It was really very interesting. 
The 2002 Olympic venue covered several locations as you would expect for such a big and diverse sporting event. Part of the events took place in Salt Lake City such as the opening and closing ceremonies and the ice skating, speed skating, and other skating events. The skiing events were done in Deer Valley, Snowbasin, and Park City. Many of the sites pre-existed and many are used today for other purposes which is all good considering the cost to prepare and build these venues for the Olympics. 
The Park City site has the bobsled run and the ski jumps which are used for training my many nations. They also have a very nice museum of the 2002 Olympics. I am a big Olympics fan so it was nice to see the exhibits and films and remember some of those Olympics.
This is the top of one of the ski jumps. 
There is also a smaller ski jump that dumps into a pool for summer practice of aerial jumps. There were some ski jumpers training today in their ski jump pool. A group of Austrians were practicing this morning, which we missed, but the site has a large program for training that starts with kids 6 yrs old. There was a group of young teens/adults training this afternoon and we watched them. Not sure if they were part of the Austrian group or not but it was fun to watch them. I am loving my new camera, too, because it has a setting for taking multiple pictures in rapid succession for action shots. It was tricky to follow the skiers down the ski slide and up in the air for their aerial moves but the setting allowed me to get that. Then I edited a couple in my editing software and actually got a couple pictures I never could have gotten on my other camera. This camera is so much fun and I have so much to learn about it.
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