Vancouver 2010: Olympic Outing #7
As much as I think I’m not going to discover anything new after going Downtown for the 7th straight day, none of those 7 days has ceased to amaze me. Today, I headed out with some family back on the Olympic streetcar and on to Granville Island once again.
Once at Granville Island, I found this cute cement truck that I’d seen once or twice before.
There was a street performance somewhere amongst the area, complete with women on stilts and audience members dancing along with them.
As the show came to an end, I found an interesting sight.
When Granville Island got a bit boring after lunch (all of us having been there before), we Canada Line’d it back Downtown, and boy were we packed like the subways of New York.
Outside Pacific Centre Mall, I saw again a cute polar bear structure that I had seen the night I went Downtown. This is a better photo as it was taken during the day.
Robson Square here, full of people, as usual.
If you haven’t already heard, the largest Canada flag in the world was vandalized yesterday. On the very top was written (torn out) “F U 2010″. Looks like they decided to tear more of the flag off so it wouldn’t resemble those words.
And remember the copper cowgirl? Well, I saw her again today and finally got a photo with her. I love her, she’s so cute.
Now, drumroll pleeeaseee! The highlight of the day! While everyone else was waiting at BC Hydro to play a game for some lanyards, I decided to walk over to Canada Post to see if they were handing out any Cheerios (they were supposedly the other day). Instead, what I found was a long lineup for I-didn’t-know-what. Then, one of the workers announced that Maelle Ricker would be showing up for an autograph session and that this was the line, so into the line I got.
Long story short, the autograph session went from 2-3pm and everyone got Cheerios postcards for them to sign. I was pretty far back when I started lining up and we were just hoping that we’d make it by 3. The lady in charge was pretty anal about the “hard stop at 3″ blah, blah, blah. And then it was our turn! We got signatures of Warren Tanner (supposedly from the 2006 Olympics) and Maelle Ricker and also photos with them. We got to them literally 2 minutes before 3. If I had gotten into the line any later, we probably wouldn’t have made it.
(I just noticed she’s left-handed.) Here’s Warren Tanner with the kids that were behind us in line.
What was funny during the lineup was that there was a huge white limo going along the street, and coming out of the top window were 2 American flags. Then, a lady started going, “U-S-A! U-S-A!” Everyone on the street heard obviously (with the majority of them wearing some form of red) and started going, “BOOOO! CANADA!” That went on for about 5 minutes on-and-off. Here’s the limo behind the throng of people.
Anywho, after the autograph session, my feet were getting tired so back to home I went (and then out again for the disappointing hockey game). Of course, Stadium Station was jammed to no end, like every other Olympic-related station.
I find it interesting how they didn’t bother changing the sign from saying “General Motors Place” to “Canada Hockey Place”.
Well, it’s time to call it a night. Not so much a night I guess considering I’m leaving the house again in about 4 hours. If you haven’t kept up with my blog posts, you’ll find out why tomorrow!