Making the decision to go

Buying Olympic tickets was not as straightforward as I thought it would be- and EXPENSIVE-. You could go to the Canadaian Olympic website or the US team website, or any number of sites, all of which had rules and regs to read and agree to (you know that ubiquitous box at the bottom to click that says you have read and understood and agreed to and pledged your life and first born child, and sworn up and down to honor and obey all of the pages of fine print above).

I had kept track of the ticket buying process early in the year, but misread the dates that tickets were to go on sale. By the time I got online, my valued skating tickets were almost all gone.
I thought I would change course and possibly go to the Skating Nationals in January instead. After all, it was skating that had inspired this whole crazy notion. Going that week would have been cheaper, but well, I didn't think going to Spokane WAshington in January was exactly what I had in mind when I dreamt of going to the Olympics. In a moment of meditative decision making I thought-I want to see any Olympics sport, not just go see skating. So the decision was made.