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Last week our friend Susan came up to see the Olympics with us!  We woke up early, drove up to Vancouver, perused the scene, saw the women’s curling event, and drove home so we could go to work the next day.  Here are the pictures.

In front of BC Place

The line to the The Bay was ridiculously long

We waited in a HUGE line for about an hour to get into the store to buy official Olympics stuff.  As is the case with all touristy places, things were overpriced.

Angela in front of the Olympic torch

The Olympic logo lit up every time the Canadians got a medal

Not "Starbucks" but "Moonpennies"

Meticulously crafted hot chocolate

Posing in front of the ski jump thing

Angela was pretty nonchalant going down a pretty hard bobsled run

Angela’s always the one that remains calm while I freak out.

You see crazy stuff like this in Canada

Angela: "What would Shaun White do?"

All the onlookers were speechless at Angela’s snowboarding skills.  When asked how she knew it she said, “I just thought, ‘What would Shaun White do?’ and I just did what was natural.”

Snowboarding

Bronze was so disappointing

Proof that we were at the 2010 curling event!

Curling competitors at the opening

This is when the US was doing well

Click here to see a video of our US curling team in action! Apparently WordPress doesn’t have out-of-the-box ability to embed video, so you’ll have to download it to watch it.

Boo! 10-3

Our team got schooled.  Ended in the seventh in, even.  But all in all, going to the Olympics was really fun.  People were really friendly and there was a lot of energy in the air.

Tags: curling, olympics, vancouver