We love the Oympics! Thursday we zipped across the border and spent the whole day meandering around the Olympic zones in Vancouver. It was a gorgeous day, the temperature was in the upper 50's with blue skies. We parked right downtown. On our way to Robson Square we stopped by the fountain outside the Vancouver Art Gallery. Great place to take pictures. At Robson Square they had an ice rink and a zip line. We watched an entertainer juggling on a unicycle, he was pretty funny. Keith worked on finding tickets to an event while the boys and I traveled on down the way. We explored all 7 floors of the Sears Department store by escalator looking for the Olympic merchandise which was of course on the ground level. The boys both found T shirts that we picked up later that night. Back outside, the street had been blocked off to traffic, and another street performer was setting up to do his unicycle/juggling/comedy act. Our favorite part was a slow motion "run" and fall to the music of Chariots of Fire. Really funny.
Beard Papa's is a cream puff shop we came upon. We ordered eclairs and they were actually even better than they looked. We liked them so well that we went back later in the evening just to get another round. Unfortunately, they had just run out of the chocolate. But the regular cream puffs were yummy too.
We decided to make our way to the Thunderbird Arena on UBC campus. We jumped on a bus and rode for 30 minutes or so. There were lots of ticket sellers touting their wares as we walked to the arena to see the USA Women's Hockey Team play Finland. We picked up some tickets at a decent price. Great seats too. The game was fun to watch, our team was SO GOOD! We won 6-0.
After the long ride back into town we made a stop on the waterfront to see the Olympic Torch, and then back to Robson Square. There were so many people out milling about, watching the events projected onto big screens and celebrating Canda's Women's Hockey team win that night. Lots of Canadians were showing their pride by wearing red. It was everywhere you looked, mostly hockey jerseys. It was a fun atmosphere!
We all enjoyed it and would like to go back to Vancouver soon to check out more cool stuff. And next time, we'll take a good map to find our way home.
That should shorten the trip by an hour or more!
