Phew! What a busy couple days! Saturday I took Sonia, Rob and Ana on a driving tour of Vancouver, which was quite fun. Then we went down to Grandville Island and ate dinner and took the Aquabus across the harbor to Hockey Place. It was Germany vs Belarus. Germany lost 3-5. Awwww too bad.
It was an exciting game. At one point the puck struck the plexi-glass so hard it cracked it. So they brought a ladder out and a new sheet and fixed it...right there in the game! :) Super fun.
But we didn't get home until about 1:30 am....and we needed to get up at 5:00 am to catch the bus! Wow, those couple hours were not enough!! :) But we made it. We took Sonia and Rob to their bus to get to Cypress to watch ski cross and then Ana, my friend Sylvia and I headed up to Whistler for a jam packed day.
We started off at men's super combined which is one run of downhill and one run of slalom. It was really exciting. The course and where the finish line was, was in shade for a while and c-c-c-c-cold, but soon the sun peeked out and it got quite hot. We got some color in our cheeks, definitely. :) Here's Ana and Syl posing in the sun.
Bode Miller won. He really was great. Another great thing was that Croatia won the silver. The course designer was his dad! :) hee hee hee hee. There were these two crazy Croatia fans right behind us and I got a great picture of Ana with them.
After that was over we headed over to Whistler Village and up to the sliding center for the 2-man bobsleigh. We were watching the forerunners coming down standing just past the finish line and all of a sudden when the sled was behind us on the loop before the final
turn into the finish line area, emergency staff started running over with these grappling hooks. then suddenly in front of us roaring past us comes a sled on it's side. I was very impressed with the people there to help. They used the hooks to stop and turn over the sled to get the people inside out. It really was quite scary.
But after that, there was not one single crash. Thank god. Germany won gold and silver. It was very very exciting. Canada was....4th I think. Very fun. By the time we got home from that it was 10:00...so we slept in this morning. Hee hee.
Tomorrow Ana and I are off to curling in the morning and then hopefully we'll all go to the aquarium in the afternoon. Sun's still shinning.... :)
Monday evening we went to Candahar, which is this art installation at Grandville Island. Here's what it's official description is "Irish artist Theo Sims’ The Candahar is a meticulously detailed recreation of an Irish public house, based on the interior of the now defunct Blackthorn Bar in Belfast. Part sculpture, part theatrical stage, The Candahar is an artwork that is also a functioning bar, open to the public and staffed, in collaboration with two Belfast bartenders who act as unscripted performers. The project fuses the authentic with fantasy, spectacle with stage, and at its heart acts as a catalyst for conversation, debate and dialogue — and a pint here or there."
It wasn't quite what we were expecting, but it was fun nonetheless. The recreation part was only a very small area inside the larger theater. The rest were these rustic chairs and tables to sit at and live music. We all thought that the whole thing was going to be the bar recreation, not just one small area enclosed to a little room inside the larger area. It was kinda odd...but still very interesting. Had a couple beers there after wandering around downtown then went to Cafe Mumbai for dinner. Monday was our "relaxing" day. 
