days off work are great

We survived our trip to the madness that is Vancouver, all is well. We hit the skytrain, after driving in a muddy parking lot for 10 minutes trying to find a spot to park. If I knew ahead of time that my Cavalier would be making a trek through a bog, I might have changed my mind on whether it was a good idea or not. Now, my car looks like a pick up that has been driving in the bush all weekend.
The Skytrain wasn't that busy on the way down, at least until we hit the beginning of the Olympic venues. Then it got packed, but never uncomfortable.
Once we got off the train, people were everywhere (really? you don't say...?) which was really cool. It was such a positive and happy vibe going on in the city it was hard not to be excited. We ended up at Robson square and found out the skating on the outdoor rink was still 2 hours away. We pretty much just mulled around,


walking up and down Robson to kill some time amongst the throngs of people. And had a Starbucks.

When it was time for skating, this happened:


If you are not a fan of Canadian figure skating, you won't know that what we have here is the Gold Medal winning (2002) Pairs Figure Skating Champions Jamie Sale & David Pelletier posing for the kids! We went on the ice to skate, and they followed (along with what seemed to be 2000 other people. I think it was actually 80).

It was pretty cool, they were doing spins and lifts, picking up kids and doing it to them too. Lots of smiles all around.

After skating, it was time to head home. I'll leave the story at that, as it takes a bit of a nosedive once we reached the surrey end of the skytrain and had to get back to the car, which was still in the middle of a bog.