Patriotic

We have our flag up in the window today. We only just got it a few days ago, so I thought it would be nice to have up for the last game of hockey and the closing ceremonies. I'm very nervous about this hockey game. We are watching it and waiting for the borscht to cook (that is cabbage tomato beef soup for those who may not know).

I can only imagine how crazy it must be at Molson Hockey house and just downtown. I am staying away from that mess today.

(I used pipe cleaners to tie the flag to our blinds). :)

olympic fun

So I was stupid and forgot my camera at home, but being in a family that has a photographer has its perks. Aria, Mik, Mom, Dad and Joy all had cameras and took some awesome photos (which I am sure I will see on Facebook soon).

Started at the BC House (Art Gallery), waited in line for 45 min or so around the block to get it, and it was worth it. They have never been to the Art Gallery before, and it was better cause its free!

Very much liked the Emily Carr stuff that was in there and the DaVinci stuff was ok. No photos of those, it was not allowed.

After that we headed over to the flame. I've never seen so many people as I did over there. Huge crowds. Dad got some awesome shots of the cauldron. Then we headed over to the spaghetti factory. I love that one, its the best one. Listened to some of the people in the table behind us, speaking Russian. Sounds so cool.

Then we went to Stanley Park, saw the rings and the flame from the other side.

I'm feeling all patriotic so maybe I will watch some more Olympics as long as its not ice dancing.

Hopefully the girls will post things on facebook so that I can share them on here too.

I wanted one thing that I could keep from the olympics

and mittens seemed to be the best and cheapest. They are really nice and warm and I like the maple leaves. Don't really care for the Olympic rings on the outer part, but they are still cute.

Now I can wear them when we go downtown on Monday. The family and I are headed down to see the venues and things.

My to do list for tomorrow includes:

-laundry ... le sigh
-exercise
-buy cell phone charger
-talk to bell
-and dust

I hate dusting and laundry, but laundry is piling up literally in my hallway.

Found some cute animals that I am going to use to decorate our room with for the baby. Haven't thought about what I am going to do with them yet, but I want to use pretty coloured paper and do some sort of mixed media type thing.

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.

2 thirds done already

1 third left to go before this baby is done! yay! Less worried about things now, more just gearing up to get this done so I can see my baby girl.

ohhh and I did get an email back from school finally. Oh man that took so long almost 4 months, but they said I can jump back in from where I left off if I hopefully finish my courses for term 2. Hopefully I can hang on till april to finish term 2 completely.


Stephen Colbert is in town for the Olympics and is taping his show by Science World. I found out that hes taping it tomorrow and Tony and I are going to get up super early (as taping starts at 9:15 am) and go see it. This is one of Tony's favourite guys to watch on the Comedy Channel. I can't wait to see it, he is hilarious.

I shall be charging my camera batteries so that I can hopefully get some pictures and see some other Olympic things downtown.