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Today wasn’t so much of an “outing” per se, but more like a morning of shopping. I woke up @ 6am after about 4 hours of sleep to groggily head out into the cold to line up at The Bay Downtown/Olympic Superstore in search of more Olympic clothes (a girl can never have too much).

The lineup, on Seymour Street, had already curved around once into the formation of 2 lanes. And I arrived at the line a tad before 8am. (The store opens @ 9am and will now be open 24/7 until the Olympics ends, which makes me wonder exactly how they will ever clean up that mess in there and replenish the clothing). As I kept waiting, the line kept getting longer. And longer. And longer. Until it had curved around about 4 times and turned into 5 lanes.

It’s funny what people will do for clothes. It’s all in the mind I guess. Like I said on Twitter, the Olympic Superstore (I really hate that name) is like a gold mine; you strike gold when you find something that fits, no matter who it was meant for (men, women, boys, girls). As long as it fits, you grab it and never let go.

That was the case for me. I stocked up on a boys size 10/12 jacket and some girls size 14 pullovers. Now in the case of the lineup, well, that just looped around half the store, but it did go pretty fast considering there were about 10 cashiers on each side. My cashier was somewhat strange; he kept looking at me (he’s either a pedophile or he was just amused by the maple leaf on my face). Anywho, let’s just say a lot of money was spent today on Olympic clothing.

Somewhere amongst the clothes in the Olympic Superstore is the Coca-Cola Happiness Cafe and an official pin trading area. Around there also are a whack of Coca-Cola clothes and what have you. (I find it funny how the Canada-hoodie lady somehow managed to wind up in both of my photos, which were taken only minutes apart from each other.)

After finally exiting the building, I went around back to Seymour Street to see how long the lineup was (this was late morning). I tried taking some good photos but because of where the sun was, the lineup turned into something of a silhouette.

I usually see the other side of the building of The Bay with the models (or maybe athletes) sporting the Olympic clothes, so it was nice to see the other side today, with the nice shade of blue and athletes doing their thing (they might be Visa ads) on the side of the building. The Scotiabank Tower is in the background.

Because I couldn’t get any good shots of the lineup, I just took a 21 second video of the line.

Now I’m absolutely exhausted from 6 days of continuous outings. Today was a short day, which I’m thankful for. I’ll be well rested for another short outing back Downtown tomorrow morning and of course, the much-anticipated Canada vs USA men’s hockey game.

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