A 2010 Winter Olympics watching thread?? (Page 5)

Ever since seeing the Chinese opening ceremonies, the Canadians knew they weren't going to compete with that. But I liked our opening ceremonies. They seemed very Canadian to me, so I think that's what we were trying to express. But you are right, k.d. lang was awesome.

Day 4, I went to the French Quarter at Granville Island. It was with good company, but it's definitely not as fun there as it is downtown. We ate Quebecois meals, poutine, tortiere, etc. at a makeshift lounge and though the food was good, it was overpriced and the service was really bad. We also listened to a famous Quebec french singer (Garou who also sang at the opening ceremonies), but it's not really my type of music, so I didn't enjoy it as much as other bands that I've seen.

Oh, and in the beer garden, there was a brief appearance by Jean Chretien.

If you can see the group Naturally 7 peform at the Bell Ice Cube, I highly recommend them. They sing acapella, but they make all the instrument sounds too. We were pleasantly surprised.

The German house (tent next to Steamworks) and the Irish House (tent next to Doulin's) are really popular, but they really are just beer gardens, so if you don't want to stand in too many queue's you can safely skip them.

Definitely go and see the light show nightly at Robson Square. It's free, and the view is great standing anywhere in Robson Square. We were standing on Robson Street and it couldn't have been better.

There's live street performers and some are quite good, but I'm sure that you see that a lot in Victoria.

If you walk over the Burrard Street bridge, you'll get a good view of the spot lights (that can be programmed on the web) over English Bay and Kits.

In Yaletown (I think on Mainland Street), there are tents set up with constantly changing performances, there were some street dancers last time I went by, so walk by there too.

If you are only in Vancouver for one day, I wouldn't stand in too many lines because you can have a lot of fun just walking down the street and taking in the atmosphere. Maybe Jeni (KrazyLegs) will chime in too. She's been visiting a lot of things too.

Japanese woman luger disqualified -

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/vancouver/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Luger-Aya-Yasuda-disqualified-for-missing-weight?urn=oly,219966

Maybe if she would have pewped before the weigh-in?

Google's been putting up some cool ones.

Which venue did you work?  I worked there too.  Medical at Figure Skating and Short-Track.  Had the time of my life!

They whomped Russia!  Holy schmoley!

Bob Costas sucks.  Carry on.

Looks like the U.S. is going to go Gold/Silver in women's downhill! 

Yessir!

Holy half-pipe, Batman!  Shaun White can catch air!