February 24th, 2010...Wednesday
Today is our day off. No events planned and that's good. We are all a little tired and the the weather is much like yesterday.. cloudy and a good chance of rain. We woke up to pancakes and circle saugages with real maple syrup straight from Canadian maple trees!
We found a book that tells us the must see things before we leave Vancouver.. one thing on the list is to visit the Inukshuk on the west coast. So that is what we are doing today. The Inukshuk is supposed to be a friendly face to the people coming in to the port of Vancouver and just happens to have the red mittens that are all the rage right now. They are sold out of adult gloves and have been for over a week now. They are the "it" item of this Olympics. After we captured a few pics with the friendly figure we decided to drive a block or two into Stanley park. It is a beautiful forest area o
n the northwestern coast of Vancouver. They have an aquarium with beluga whales, my favorite ( but we didn't go), a collection of totem poles that we did see and Robb got his picture with a real live Russian. There were a few tour buses that were following us or maybe we just happened to be heading the same direction just ahead of them. But the Russians are the next host for the Olympics (Sochi, Russia) in 2014 and they are pretty prominent here. I guess because we are so close to Alaska and you can see Russia from Alaska?? Then we found a couple more statues with the infamous red mittens on and found the Olympic rings in the harbour. It was a pretty fun morning. Max then fell soundly asleep once back in the car so we journeyed home but found the Olympic villages along the way. That was pretty neat. Each apartment building had flags from a different country that is participating in the Olympics. Pretty neat to see them all together like that.
n the northwestern coast of Vancouver. They have an aquarium with beluga whales, my favorite ( but we didn't go), a collection of totem poles that we did see and Robb got his picture with a real live Russian. There were a few tour buses that were following us or maybe we just happened to be heading the same direction just ahead of them. But the Russians are the next host for the Olympics (Sochi, Russia) in 2014 and they are pretty prominent here. I guess because we are so close to Alaska and you can see Russia from Alaska?? Then we found a couple more statues with the infamous red mittens on and found the Olympic rings in the harbour. It was a pretty fun morning. Max then fell soundly asleep once back in the car so we journeyed home but found the Olympic villages along the way. That was pretty neat. Each apartment building had flags from a different country that is participating in the Olympics. Pretty neat to see them all together like that. We got home and did what else, watched some more Olympics! Robb is starting to get frustrated that we are only getting the Canadian channels and would like to see Bob Costas and some NBC intrepretations. Or at least hear about someone else other than the Canadians. Geez you would think that in the Olympic host country you would hear more about the other countries.. kidding but it is a lot of curling and hockey... canadian curling and hockey. We all took nice naps and woke up to nana mary making tacos! and a few minutes later my baby boy bolted around the corner from his nap in nana's room and right to his post on my lap! We decided, I forget for what reason to go back downtown to check out something. oh, yeah another thing on the must do before you leave list.. Robson street. We got there just in time to see all the crazy Canadians wooting and hollering after there quarter final win in mens hockey. They literally kept it up for over 3 hours. We looked for souvenior shops, found GE plaza that had a sipline up above the trees in the plaza, an ice skating rink down below the plaza, fun make shift bobsleds and medal podiums. It was a neat place and it was packed with people. Robson was blocked off for at least 4-5 blocks and there were people everywhere. Another big thing has been the cowbell. Canadian were running up and down the street with Canadian flags on there back and cowbells in hand. We found the superstore again and the line was only about 10 minutes so we went back for round two of shopping. We bought a lot less this time. Came back out and people were still relishing the win. Quite impressive.. imagine if they win the Gold. Whew.
So off to bed we go. well after a little more Olympics on TV.
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