Vancouver 2010

The Olympics have come and gone...the Paralympics are on their way, and we have enjoyed every minute of it thus far! Here are Aidan and the kids in front of the cauldron - downtown Vancouver.

What's that? You can't see the cauldron behind them? Yeah, me neither...seems I missed. So here is a better shot...

There were so many people that it was next to impossible to get close, unless you wanted to wait in line for 3 hours to climb up to the viewing platform, not really my idea of a good time. So you get a shot from a far instead! We wandered around downtown for a while along with the other million people walking around Robson and Granville streets. It was a really exciting place to be and the kids had a great time watching all of the street performers. Although I'm sure the highlight of their day was the trip in the sardine can (sky train) down to waterfront where the cauldron was located. We were packed to hilt on that thing, with more people squeezing in at every stop. But everyone was in good humor so being so squished actually turned out to be pretty fun!

Aidan and I were lucky enough to go to one of the preliminary hockey games - Russia vs. The Czech Republic. It was so fun! Those crazy Russians! Seriously! They know how to party!

And can you believe I ran into Lolly! Lolly hails from Washington DC and I've been reading her blog for a while now, so it was really cool to just happen to run in to her at the hockey game. Crazy!

On our walk to the arena we went through False Creek along the sea wall and came across all these Inukshuks that random people had built along the waters edge. There were hundreds of them, so cool to see!

Here we are at the hockey game. We didn't care who won...we cheered for both teams!

We are going to try and get some tickets to see some sledge hockey, but I've heard that they may be all sold out, which would be disappointing because I think that Owen would love to see it!

The reno's are moving along....slowly. We've been living in the basement for weeks now, but it's actually pretty comfortable, so I can't complain. The guys are just finishing off the stairs now, so just all of the finishing/touch up work remains...and there will be a lot...we painted the walls beforehand, but they got pretty dinged up during the floor install, and all of the trim work needs to be mudded and painted.

We'll get there.

One day.