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Aha! I discovered my picture problem, so now I’ll be uploading photos from the Olympic adventure. I’ll be inserting a few into my previous Olympic posts, as well as creating a few new ones, so come back in a few days and check out the pictures!

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Not only did we manage to snag two sets of ladies ice hockey gold medal hockey tickets (that’s 6 tickets if you’re counting), but we also got a men’s ice hockey quarterfinal game. That wasn’t too promising for us to see Canada play until Canada won vs Switzerland in a shootout. And then [...]

Week 2 at the Vancouver Winter Olympics has officially started, and we`re still having fun! (Unfortunately I`m having difficulty uploading photos so I can`t show you all the fun, but once I figure it out I`ll add them all in.)
We`ve seen a ton of men`s and women`s curling, which has been great. I can`t believe [...]

On Tuesday night we headed out to a Victory Ceremony where we saw Mike Robertson get his silver medal from the snowboard cross. That was awesome. The Victory Ceremonies are pretty good because each one is dedicated to a province or territory, so they do a cultural show beforehand, then the medals are presented, then [...]

If you have an Olympic event ticket here in Vancouver it entitles you to free transit rides for the day of your event (to 4am the day after your event, actually), which is nice. As we’ve got tickets for every day of the Olympics, this means we don’t ever have to pay for transit in [...]


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