wordless wednesday: buzzzzzzz

... and the winners are

From our downtown olympic adventure, please offer up your applause for the medals.

• most unexpected moment of the day: close tie between the much shorter queue for the Vancouver Art Gallery (V.A.G.) after lunch, and the walk right up to view the olympic cauldron thru the security fence (wow!)
• most BC moment of the day: viewing the Kevin Schmidt video installation at V.A.G. playing Stairway to Heaven on a generator-powered guitar and am combo during sunset on Long Beach (so BC)
• most touristy moment: being photographed with the olympic torch in the Bell Canada igloo
• most emotional moment: watching the Wee Guy get his hug from Sumi, one of the olympic mascots, at last!
• most wtf? moment: watching parents letting their kids chase after and stamp at the pigeons in Kidspace on Granville Island (shame on you, parents! do you let them beat up smaller kids too and sit back doing nothing? great way to breed psychopaths)
• most kid-friendly moment: traveling on the Canada Line to collect the Olympic streetcar to Granville Island (we both loved that journey)

.. and thus concludeth our olympic adventure.
Thank you for reading.

olympic fever subsided

It started waaaaaaaaay back with not being able to get out on the ice with the mascots. Oh the disappointment!

Then there was the torch carrying .......

.. followed by waiting in the dark really early in the morning for the torch relay (followed by side trip to ER later in the day)

...... holding the real torch ....

.... an even bigger flame ...

.... and finally a hug in real life from Sumi. We played hookey from school and headed off downtown to savour the olympic flavour. We just happened to be at the Robson Square ice rink when the mascots were out meeting and greeting. Amazingly, we got rinkside and the Wee Guy got his hug at last. Needless to say, it would have made a super picture but I was too emotional to click the shutter. After the disappointment of missing skating with them back in January I knew how much this moment meant to my little travel companion. His face was a true delight and I'm glad I savoured the moment with him. The olympics are over now but we did have our own olympic moment .... and we have sled hockey in the Paralympics to look forward to.