span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; “span class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-size: medium;”Hi Class,/spandivspan class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-size: medium;”br //span/divdivspan class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-size: medium;”I just wanted to say hello, since I’ve been away for awhile now. How are all of you?/span/divdivspan class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-size: medium;”br //span/divdivspan class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-size: medium;”I am in Denver, Colorado right now, and will be here for one more week before I head back to Lake Placid. I have had a very nice break from training and skiing out here, but wanted to fill you in on some events and programs I’ve been looking in to. I just spent the last two days in Washington, D.C. The US Olympic and Paralympic Teams were invited to the White House to meet President Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Vice-President Biden and Mrs. Biden. This was an amazing experience. I got a chance to shake Obama’s hand; star-struck, all I could say was “It is wonderful to meet you.” What do you say to someone who has done such super-human and heroic things? Instead of shaking hands with Mrs. Obama, she gave us a warm hug, after the couple joked about biathlon and made funny gestures of a skier and then a shooter. After meeting all of us individually, each team got to take a photo with both the Obama’s and the Biden’s. /span/divdivspan class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-size: medium;”br //span/divdivspan class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-size: medium;”Not only was it cool to meet the President, and perhaps a once-in-a-lifetime-/spanspan class=”Apple-style-span” style=”font-size: medium;”wbropportunity, it was very special to meet Michelle Obama. I am very excited about her mission as First Lady and a leading mom. Among many initiatives, like growing a garden at the White House, she has started a new program called /span
