A shock to come to work today and realize the Olympics are over! I'm still on the job for another week but any evidence that the games happened here is fast disappearing. The traffic barriers are coming down, the hundreds of pin traders are leaving town, the police presence everywhere (especially on the harbour) is no more, and all the TV monitors are blank. Even the Olympic rings are taking two weeks off until they come alive again for the Paralympic Games March 12.
We were at the Closing Ceremony last night outfitted like everyone else in white cape, Sochi snowball, and moose ears with twinkling lights. It was a spectacle first and a fun show next with all the Canadian cliches trotted out like table hockey, beavers, canoes, Mounties (some in miniskirts!) and moose ---- everything but the maple syrup!
All that satire was balanced out by Neil Young, Michael J. Fox, William Shatner,Michael Buble, Alanis Morrisette, Avril Lavigne, Hedley, Nickleback, and more --- everybody but Celine Dion! At some point I'll be posting some pictures just for the archives. And Vancouver has been amazingly friendly, festive, and proud. You've read or heard about it, we can vouch that it's (true X 100).
We were at the Closing Ceremony last night outfitted like everyone else in white cape, Sochi snowball, and moose ears with twinkling lights. It was a spectacle first and a fun show next with all the Canadian cliches trotted out like table hockey, beavers, canoes, Mounties (some in miniskirts!) and moose ---- everything but the maple syrup!
All that satire was balanced out by Neil Young, Michael J. Fox, William Shatner,Michael Buble, Alanis Morrisette, Avril Lavigne, Hedley, Nickleback, and more --- everybody but Celine Dion! At some point I'll be posting some pictures just for the archives. And Vancouver has been amazingly friendly, festive, and proud. You've read or heard about it, we can vouch that it's (true X 100).
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