February 15th & 16th - Days Off!

Two days off in a row!!! Monday was a scheduled day off and today was a surprise - a last minute cancellation.  Yesterday Courtney and I just wandered around downtown, then met Angie & Dale (our other housemates) for dinner at a restaurant nearby BC Place as we were going to the Medal Ceremony later that evening...we had bought the tickets for this event at least 6 weeks ago, and at that time, the entertainment hadn't been announced (each night a different performer is there, for example, Nelly Furtato, BareNakedLadies, Billy Talent, INXS), last week they announced that Gregory Charles was playing - who the heck is he you are saying...us too, so we googled him and he is a big Quebec star (as each ceremony is sponsored by a province)...anyway, as it turned out, Canada's first gold medal was handed out at our ceremony so needless to say, we were all happy with the way it turned out...when Alex Bilideau walked onto the stage, the place went nuts and when the National Anthem played, we all sang along...I videoed it on my camera, but unfortunately can't share it here as the file is too big...I do have some pics though...

Rather than just hanging out today, I thought I would go to see if I could get a ticket to the Women's Curling - apparently if you go to the box office at the venue there are some last minute tickets released and available...I wasn't able to get one from the box office, but there was a guy on the street selling tickets for face value so I grabbed one of those..and held my breath that they weren't forgeries...good news, they weren't!!!!  The teams I saw were Canada vs Switzerland, Russia vs Germany, Denmark vs Sweden, and USA vs Japan.  All of the games were close and I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it..although it is difficult to follow all four games.  Of course the crowd went wild went Canada was introduced and then when they made the last shot to win the game, we all went crazy again!!!