April 17, 2010 - Olympic Village park

February 19, 2010 - Czech vs. Latvia

Super fun game, half of the fans were wearing canada jerseys but lots of cheering for both teams. Entertaining and lots of fun. Photos are of the ridiculous way they had the line up to get into the building and a view from our seats.

February 18, 2010 - Pins, pins and more pins!

I cant believe how many people there are downtown that are trading pins! there are people with pins from every sponsor for every olympics for the last 3 or 4 winter games. This truly is a interesting hobby and I myself got a pin for my olympic spirit - its a canadian flag pin as small as my pinkie finger nail that i pinned to my camera strap. Anyways, the photo I took was near waterfront station where there was a line of people with trays and trays of pins. Never have i seen so many.

NIGHT

February 16, 2010 - Robson Square

So today was pretty fun, walked around downtown with heather and kate, watched canada get their second gold metal (in border cross) and watched the mens hockey team dominate. The photo is from Robson square showing some of the people, the outdoor skating rink (covered with the glass roof) and the zip line! Going to try and get a ride on that before they take it down after the olympics.

Night,

Greg

February 14, 2010 - Olympics Day 2 - Canada wins GOLD!

Crazy day, no time to recap except that I have never seen so many people out on a sunday night... scratch that, i have never seen so many people on Granville street downtown ever.

See photos

February 13, 2010 - Olympics Day 1

Today was pretty good, checked out some olympic events and went down to Granville Island to see the Swiss house and wonder around with Rob. Watched the Canadian womens hockey team destroy and the dutch win their first gold! Photo for today is actually three photos: flags at Granville island, the statue outside the swiss house on granville island and the granville island market sign.

enjoy,

greg

February 12, 2010 - Winter Olympic Opening Ceremony

Well i did not get to goto the actual opening ceremony but i did go downtown and enjoy it with a bunch of people at the yaletown brewery. not much time to write as i am tired but here is my photo. I was on the Cambie bridge on my way home and saw the crowds coming out of BC place. Also Cambie bridge was completely bumper to bumper with the tour busses! bizarre.. o wait, just olympic antics.

night

February 11, 2010 - Torch Relay

Was lucky enough to get a glimpse of the torch relay before they made their final journey to the opening ceremonies which are tomorrow night! Town is starting to buzz, its very evident with much larger increases in transit, more olympic security and lots of team uniforms! The next few days will be very interesting, see if they got their estimates right for traffic control etc. The photo was taken up by my parents house. The top photo is right before the lighting of the next section of the olympic flame and the bottom image is the crazy amount of people that were there to see it. Never have I seen that street so busy, but then again never have we had such a big event in the city.

Night

g.

February 10, 2010 - Olympic opening ceremony!

Hey there readers,

Had lots of fun today. went with Rob to the opening ceremony dress rehearsal. Its all hush hush so i can't say anything except it was really neat! Photo is the most olympic stuff I could scavenge up before bed: two red olympic mittens and my ticket for the rehearsal. Also got some time off work now so I will try to get a lot more interesting olympics stuff up in the next few days!

Cheers,

g.