Go Canada Go

It hardly seems real that we're here in Canada at the Olympics. Since we found out that the Olympics were going to be here in Vancouver, we've been looking forward to it and it's finally here.

We didn't get the tickets we wanted for today - speed skating - so we had a slow morning and then started heading north. Vancouver is about 3 hours from our house. I was a little worried about the border crossing. Online it said they were expecting a lot of people, especially in the middle of the day, but we only waited about 5 minutes and that's only because we got behind a Mazerati (is that how you spell it) and it was super slow.

Here we are waiting for our chance to answer the fun questions to get ourselves into Canada.

We found our hotel, which isn't actually in Vancouver because, well, we couldn't get one in the city. I waited to get a hotel room until after we found out which events we were going to, which was kind of a mistake, but we know for next time now...

I really wanted to go into Vancouver today to kind of get an idea of what's going on. So we hopped on the train and headed that way. I wanted to go to the Olympic Superstore. We had to wait in line for about 10 minutes to get in but it was fun in there. Everything you'd like to buy.

After that, it was getting dark, so we decided to go see the Olympic Flame. We had no idea that this was going to be so difficult! We asked the guy at our hotel and he told us it was by the Superstore. We couldn't see it there, so we decided to head down to where the Opening Ceremonies were thinking it would be close by. Nope. So finally we asked someone who said it was completely the other way by the water. We got on another train and FINALLY (after some weird directions from another volunteer) found it. You couldn't get too close and it was behind some very pretty chain link fence, but I got some decent pictures.

These are the rings that are out in the harbor - I'm guessing on a boat, but we couldn't see.



Tomorrow we have tickets to see the USA play Switzerland in hockey. Woho! We didn't even mean to do that...we had to get the tickets at least 2 years ago and we had no idea who was going to be playing. At least this time we can chant "USA USA USA" without making anyone feel bad. (In the Salt Lake games, they told people not to chant that because we were going to make the rest of the world feel bad.)