The Olympics!

Hi!

So I have finally gotten around to getting back on here! My attempt at once a week didn't really pan out that well (sorry Deb!) so I thought I would back track a little and let you know about the Olympics.

I was really lucky to be able to go and see the Dress Rehearsal for the Opening Ceremony. It was held on the Monday before they opened on Friday. One of my friends was in the ceremony, giving all the crowd the signals for what they needed to do. It was a great experience, there were about 30,000 people there and it didn't cost the $500 the actual ceremony was costing! Seeing it again on Friday was great and we hardly missed out on anything... well apart from the athletes, but we all cheered anyway. There must have been heaps of Aussies there that night, because I wasn't alone when the flag came out and I stood and cheered! Seriously... I couldn't help it! :)

On the Saturday Tina and I went and saw the Womens mogul events up at Cypress mountain. We were pretty excited til we got to the university where we were catching the bus with everyone and they were running nearly 2 hours late. It was raining and people weren't to impressed! We managed to get up to the mountain just before the qualifying round started, and it was PACKED! We watched the ladies do their thing, and saw the Australian girl. She was the only one who was interviewed on the night because she is so young, so that was cool! She came in 17th to start with but dropped lower... but she was still so excited! I think she is only about 15 so she is doing pretty good really!

This photo shows how much fun we were having!! Right??!! Is it convincing?? :)

We went and got dinner at half time, and waited 2 hours for that as well. Unfortunately it was the first even on Cypress so they were just working out the kinks. It was cold, raining and I was wet up to my knees. So by the time we finally got food we decided to head home and watch the rest on TV! I know... not very committed but my feet were swimming in water by the time I got home... but it was an experience none the less!




This photo to the left, shows how much snow was brought in for the Olympics as everything else was green and brown!

I think the photos look like we are having a better time! It was great to say that we have seen an event, just not the most comfortable!

Kiri :)