The Sills go to the Olympics

by Linds

We made a last minute trip to Vancouver this weekend for the Olympics since it seemed like a shame not to drive 4 hours to join the festivities. We left Friday morning and spent the day wandering around the sites. The first stop was Granville Island to check out some of the Olympic houses. Got off to a bit of a disappointing start with the Atlantic house. Waited over an hour (which from talking to people wouldn’t even be considered a wait since most lines were 5+ hours) and upon entering we got an oyster, saw some flyers and got our picture taken.

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Expected more….like beer or lobster, but was nice to try oysters again since my first experience in Hawaii with them wasn’t so great. Maybe I just like Atlantic oysters.

Friday I think was the first rainy day and it rained ALL day. We watched the men’s semifinal hockey game downtown in a crowd in Robson square. We only lasted one period and were soaked (with rain, and probably sweat from the last 3 stressful minutes of the game) and decided to head to a house party. On the way we got distracted by a warm sushi restaurant with a big tv and beer…so it was an obvious choice and a great place to see Canada pull off a win, by the skin of their teeth, against Slovakia.

Saturday we checked out the cauldron and the German House. Was fun to just wander the streets with thousands of other tourists. I feel like we managed to see a lot in a short period of time. We even caught a pirate protest.

We made it back to Kelowna in time to play indoor ultimate. It’s at a new indoor facility 5 minutes from our house on turf! The level of play was really good. Went out for beers with a few folks after (trying to find a league team

Spent today the same as the rest of Canada…watching the best hockey game ever! I’m hoping that after this game people stop talking about the 2002 gold medal game. I was in Guatemala at the time and spent an entire day walking around the small town I was in looking for the game. No dice…just lots of laughs from people asking me if I was Canadian. I’m just glad I caught this game. It was amazing! The closing ceremonies were quite good but I think it’s only a result of such a good Olympics and wonderful stories along the way. Luckily we got our cable hooked up just in time so I caught most of our victories but it was nice to relive them tonight. The highlight for me was Avril Lavigne’s performance. The Japanese were going crazy during her show. It reminded me of our trip to Japan where girls there are fanatically for Avril with her name spewed all over their t-shirts and backpacks.

Jeff and I were trying to guess the next artist. I really thought it would be Celine, but she never appeared. Being the geek that I am, I immediately Googled “why didn’t Celine show up to the Olympics?”. Some of the hits I got were quite funny “her ego wouldn’t fit in the arena” or “she got stuck in a very long poutine line up”….but then I felt bad for laughing once I found out the real reason – she’s trying to procreate. We were wrong on all of our guesses….in terms of why she wasn’t there as well as who the next artist would be.

I am so very sad the Olympics are over. The only good thing about it is that now we can get some much needed things done around the house. Here’s some photos of our trip to Olympics 2010:

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