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What a great day today eh, Canada? I didn’t have time to blog last night about yesterday so I’ll stuff two days into one blog post. Again, I’m gonna try to breeze through this.

So yesterday, I plastered a ginormous maple leaf on my face and headed out the door. En route to Canada Northern House, I passed by the Royal Canadian Mint, and the lineup was just absolutely outrageous. There wasn’t just one line either; there was one line to be able to go upstairs to touch the medals, one line to just get in to visit the boutique and buy stuff, and one line just for a bloody coin exchange. The lineup was supposedly 6-8 hours long. I can only hope those people had a ton of fun waiting in the cold.

Canada Northern House was pretty interesting; it focuses on the 3 territories of Canada: Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.

There was even a little station where you could build your own inukshuks.

This is some sort of whale bone. I find it scary how there’s a face on it.

I didn’t get a photo of the entire thing, but I believe this bushel of food lasts people from the North for up to 6 months.

After exiting Canada Northern House, I went back to check the lineup at the Mint. It didn’t look like it’d eased up at all. If anything, it just got longer.

While wandering among the crowds, I happened to see Jennifer Heil, silver medalist in women’s moguls, on Robson and Granville right by the Vitamin Water booth.

And again, I saw Miss Bronzed Cowgirl, doing her thing on her little bronze podium. I really wonder how these types of people go to/from where they stand around without people giving them looks and all. I mean, you see them there during the day, but what about before/after?

I ended up at Robson Square to watch the Mascots show, which was actually pretty cute.

Found these cute Lotto Max people prancing around by one of the Canada Line stations.

Now today… just wow. I hadn’t planned on going Downtown again, but I did. I ended up with a lot of free stuff from Cheerios. And I saw Ashleigh McIvor and some other athlete I don’t know and met Patrick Chan.

Great day for Canada today, although I’m disappointed that women’s curling didn’t win gold. Or else we’d be harsh dominating right now. But nevertheless, we’re dominating so far in terms of gold medals. Like I said on Facebook and Twitter…

Dear America,

You may have more medals than us, but our national anthem was sung more times than yours.

Love,

Canada

Gotta love being Canadian.

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