So the plan was to head downtown for Olympic fun with the family. Unlike so many people who were fooled into taking public transit, we drove into the city. Oh there was no traffic, there was parking and it was awesome to feel like we won.
Had to get a shot of all of us infront of the huge Canadian Flag. I felt so awesome wearing my mittens. Mikaela thieved moms mittens for most of the day. She looked cute with them too. Aria has a Canadian toque that she had from the last winter Olympics.
We were determined to go to the Art Gallery. 1. Its BC's Pavilion, 2. Its free and 3. They've all never been inside it before. Tsk tsk! I am happy to say that I went with Coley and it was awesome. So much for Winter Olympics, Aria calls them the "Spring Olympics". Very fitting as we saw all the cherry trees in bloom outside. It was a gorgeous day out. It must have been like 14 - 15 degrees.
So pretty! The line up was around the block for the art gallery, but it was only like an hour or 45 minute wait cause that line was moving fast. I overheard someone in line say that some people only went in for 1 exhibit. To wait an hour and not see the whole thing seems silly to me. We did it all.
Very cool Technology thing going on in the BC part of the Art gallery. Touch screens are awesome. I was also thinking in my brain how everyone touches it of course...promptly used the hand sanitizer after that exhibit.
We then made the trek to see the flame. We saw the Sardis Drum band guys playing. They were awesome. They looked a little tired, but they were doing a great job and had a big crowd around them.
Unobstructed view yay. This was through the glass. We squeezed in right to the front.
fence...oh well.
Dad saw Russian TV doing interviews of this guy. We assume he is an athlete of some kind or coach. I love their sweaters that they have. One of my favourite things was listening to all the different languages that were spoken in the city.
Obviously Mr. Russian Athlete, you will not win if you smoke. Maybe that's why we smoked you in hockey.
After dinner at the Spaghetti Factory (which was awesome) we headed to Stanley Park. We walked along the sea wall for a bit and Mikaela almost fell off...it was low tide though, she would have only hit the rocks dont worry. I swear we must have been super tired cause we didnt even see that there were stairs near us that the girls could use to walk down to the ocean. They were wanting to go and considered jumping down to get shells. We also didn't notice that we were sitting on a bench looking for the Olympic rings when we realized that the rings were right in front of us on a barge type thing. The angle we were sitting at was just the side view so in our defense, they didn't look like rings.
Hehe we match! Yes I look not so cool in my winter coat, but its the only one that doesn't leave me feeling sick from being squished into it. I have a way to wear it and we can all breathe without issues.
All the photographers were gathering at a specific spot to get photos of the Canada Place Sails. It was getting too cold so we parked near that spot and watched them from inside the car all huddle and take pictures of the sails. Some with tripods (good job), other with cameras with the flash on...(doh!). Poor guys with their flashes going off...thats just not going to cut it.
Dried apricots in the car were awesome, so were the muffins and things mom packed.
Time to go home. Tony was working at school till 11 pm. He's been doing that a lot this week. Last night he came home at 9. That was a treat! We had chili and seedy bread with butter.
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