Mega Olympic post. With photos!!!

I am procrastinating. While I was procrastinating shrinking and posting a bunch of photos of Olympic site stuff (from Friday) I have been given a new thing to procrastinate... finishing cleaning my bathroom... which started so that I could procrastinate on a few other things. I'm good like that. Eventually everything will get done as long as I can find something that I would like to be doing less then the other thing. Well it wasn't that I didn't want to post photos. It's more that I just find the shrinking and posting process to be a bit of a pain. Especially when posting more then one photo with the new photo posting process on blogger. But I will do so now. And not just because I am procrastinating on the bathroom front but also as I am waiting for someone to come on line for a meeting and I have played about as much spider solitaire as one can while waiting for a meeting to start.

I'll shut up now and let the photos tell the story.

Saw the flame on the last day of the torch run... day of the opening ceremonies. It took the tram to Granville Island. I think the European visitors are secretly laughing at our tram... it has two stops... one by my house and one about 2k down the road at Granville Island. This was done with the lift camera above head, poke, and shoot method of photography... not bad!

OK so then the first time I got downtown to see the hubbub was to go to Live Downtown for a drink before the Feist concert where we got to see us win a bronze on one telly and be awarded a silver for moguls on the other. Woot! Wendy was with us (and no there were no beds for her to fit under... and she only had one purple fizzy drink so she wasn't drunk enough to be talked into fitting into any small random spaces)

The next day Wendy took us to see curling. Which rocked (sorry couldn't help myself). The arena was raucous. Not your usual curling bonspiel crowd. It was awesome. And it was still very Canadian. They piped in the women. And when the guy next to us called over to Jennifer Jones (the Brier winner from a few weeks ago) who was in the media centre she looked up waved and blew us a kiss. In the bottom pic that's Team Canada in action right in front of us (thanks to Wendy... I stopped taking photos as I forgot I had my camera after the games started).

That night we saw the flame. Which I've posted before but here is a group shot. That's dude in line ahead of us.

Holy moly this is getting long. On to Friday! The day of St. Lisa - Saint of Random Strangers who give out tickets to suites at the hockey game!

Yup free tickets to the Sweden Belarus game. In a sweet. Where we snuck in a few friends.

So we took Nic and Terri with us for the rest of our tour around to the Olympic sites.

We couldn't find the mascots so we cheated a bit here.

And we ended the day at the medal ceremony. Which I didn't get any good photos of. But BC Place didn't look like a football field but was a strangely blue lit, white landscape with weird fake ice things.

And then we walked back across the bridge to home.

Do any of these count as photo of the day? No? Damn... off to find something to take a photo of.