Stephen Colbert Show and Olympic things

So we woke up super early this morning, or super early for Tony...6:30 ish for him, 6am for me since I couldnt really sleep anyways. We headed out to downtown. Transit wasn't terrible, it was good, but we were on it around 7:30 am. Science world looked so pretty today with all the Olympic stuff on it. Apparently its the Russia house. We didn't go in as there was a huge line. We also found that there was a huge line for the Colbert show and at first that was kind of a bummer until we got a awesome tip from a girl handing out free excel gum ( the ones with the maple leaves on them). She said to just hang out at the stairs cause the line was mostly for people who wanted to rush to the front of the stage.


So we chilled at the stairs kinda away from the line and still had a very good view from where we were. We probably waited 1.5 - 2 hours for him to start things up, but it was good.


I loved seeing everyone dressed up in red and white colours and loved seeing the flags everywhere.

That was the stage, complete with penguins, a moose, snowmen, ski gear and totem poles.


It was tres chilly this morning, and Tony only wore his hoodie. He told me to not bring my mittens (big mistake).


So once we were almost ready, the stage manager told us that we had to raise our hands to let him know we were ok with being on TV. ...no kidding. This could have also been the point where the Goodyear blimp asked the show to have us all wave. "wheres the blimp?" some guy asked Stephen...."well duh, its in the sky!" was the response. It was pretty hard to tell where the blimp was, I think it was behind the trees or behind me. We also cheered Stephen on with his French name, Stephan.


Quite a good morning, we had a lot of fun, and it was so hilarious. So it airs on the comedy network next week sometime, but I think it can also be seen online.

After that, we headed downtown for lunch. I was super hungry from a lot of waiting and having breakfast hours ago.

After that, we headed home, but had to stop and see some of the art near Georgia at the Granville Canada Line station. I like the little lantern trees the best. Tony had to go to school and do work on his project, so I ended up going home. Didn't want to explore all alone today.