February 27th & 28th - Last Two Days!

On Saturday morning Dale was returning to Ottawa so I accompanied her to the airport on the skytrain.  After she checked in, I headed over to my friends' Jan and Ron to spend some time with them - they have been so helpful to me in the two year process of getting prepared for these Olympics - they've picked up and dropped Courtney and I from the airport numerous times and gave us shelter when we needed it...a big thanks to them for everything!!!  After that, I pretty much spent the rest of the day/evening getting packed up so that I could figure out if I would have enough roon to bring everything home - apparently I overbought on the Olympic souvenir front cause I am having to have a box of stuff shipped home - luckily the company I work for has an account with Fedex Ground so I can have it all arranged from work...guess where the box is right now...yup, at Jan & Ron's - another thank you!!!!

On Sunday, Randy came in from Whistler to spend the day/night with us so that we could all head out to the airport early on Monday morning...we rented a car for the day (24 hours) so that we could avoid using taxis to the airport...the Whistler bus dropped him off at the airport around 11:30 a.m. so I picked him up and we went back to our house to watch the hockey game - GO CANADA GO - then after the game (and a skype call to Deen (Randy's wife) in Barbados, we headed downtown to check out the Athlete's Village and the Olympic Flame...as an aside, Deen and our friends in Barbados watched the game at Bert's Bar where the place was packed with both US and Canadian fans - very exciting - and Eugene Melnyk was there watching also...when Deen was leaving she said to him..."now we can go back to concentrating on the Sens" to which he high fived her!  Back to Vancouver - Randy and I wondered around the village checking out the sights there and then we skytrained over to the Olympic Flame so that Randy and Courtney could see it...the rings were gold because of the hockey win and there were tons of people around...after that we headed back to the house for some pizza and then out to the airport to drop off Gary (housemate) at the airport for his 11:30 p.m. flight back to Ottawa...upon returning home, we finished up our packing then headed off to bed...it's a 3:45 wake up call for our flights home...