Game 2 vs. Japan

Last night we played Japan, and once again we came out with a tie. Overall we were pretty happy with our performance, but we definitely have something that was could have changed, especially in the first half. We came out a little flat and got ourselves under pressure early on. Japan is a team that we are pretty familiar with because we play them so many times during the year, and we seem to always struggle to score goals against them. We got scored on early in the game and had to fight to come back the rest of the match. Our captain, Kate Barber, got us on the board with a great shot from the top of the circle to get the tie for us. We hope to move on from all the ties when we play Germany tomorrow morning. So far our pool is up for grabs. Argentina has 2 point (they tied both us and great britain), Germany has 6 points (with 2 wins against Great Britain, New Zealand), New Zealand has 0 points, Japan has 4 points with a with against New Zealand and a tie against us, Great Britain has 1 point and We have 2 points. These next 3 games are going to decide a lot when it comes to going on to the medal rounds. Its funny because a lot of people are congratulating us on getting ties because they all thought we were going to come into the Olympics and lose all our games, but we really are here to compete for a medal. Hopefully everyone back home is able to see the games..keep on supporting us!!

Today we have completely off. We woke up and had breakfast and at 12 we are going over to see our families:) The Bank of America has a building here called the Hometown hopefuls where all the family members of the olympic athletes can go and have free food and dinner and wireless internet and tv's to watch all the games. Today we are going over there to meet all our families which is going to be really nice. It'll be good to get some distractions away from hockey for a bit. 

We haven't gotten a chance to see any other events yet other than what they show on tv over here. I think we are trying to organize to get to some other events and really make this the complete olympic experience. So we'll see! I'll update again soon! Go USA!!