Our Stay with Tom and Lori McHugh

Tom and Lori are people we knew from an interest outside of skating. We first met in the early 1980s. We haven't seen eachother in over 20 years, but Tom has become an ice dancer and found me online in 2002 and we've been in touch ever since. A friendship has developed.

When Tom heard we wanted to come to Lake Placid for the competition, he and Lori invited us to stay with them in Connecticut for a couple days before we drove to Lake Placid and for a night before going to New York.

Tom and Lori and their son, David, were great hosts. We got to meet Lori's mother too. Tom found places for us to skate and helped with finding road directions as we traveled. Tom made sushi! Tom took us out to dinner. Tom played the guitar for us. Lori played the piano with Rebekah. Tom did card tricks for the kids. The McHughs were wonderful!

Tom took us to skate at the Hickory Hill Figure Skating Club's Sunday ice dance session. He also took us to skate at his local rink in Danbury, Connecticut. He found a rink in Brewster, New York for us to skate at on Monday on our way to Lake Placid.

It was so nice to have friends to go to when we got off the plane and before going to New York City.