A family I knew from my mission lives in Vancouver now

This Saturday we took another quick trip up to Vancouver.  We met up with a family I knew from my mission that had moved to Canada.  It was fun to catch up on how they’ve been and find out all the news from the people I knew in the Philippines.  It turns out there’s a huge Filipino community up there.  We got Mango Tang, Balut, and Yakisoba!  We’ll definitely be going more often!

I don't have a picture of the balut because I haven't eaten it yet.

Front of the temple

The same day was the last day of the open house at the Vancouver temple.  It was a really good experience and I was really impressed with how organized everything was.  When we went to the chapel of the church building next door, they put us into tour groups and gave us a tour guide.  It was cool that there were lots of church members as well as locals taking the tour.  The temple was really nice.  Somebody asked the tour guide what type of wood they used.  Our tour guide said that he didn’t know exactly what type but that it is the best quality: “The best things belong to God.  So we don’t mind giving them back.”

At the front of the temple

It’s a small world in the church.  After the tour, we ran into a family from our ward.  Then we (re)met a guy that we had first met about three years ago.  I also met some people who know the Lacestes that we had lunch with earlier.

On the freeway heading home, we heard a loud screeching noise.  We looked over and saw sparks flying across two lanes behind a car.  They traveled for about 1/4 mile before they stopped.  We realized what happened when we saw that their rear tire had fallen off and was rolling down the freeway.

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.