Morning before the big game!!!

So what do people do in an Olympic town the morning before the big game? I guess in many ways we prepare like any Olympian would.
We get up early, have a nice hot shower and put on our hockey jersery that we have been wearing every day since the games began. We eat a large breakfast cause we know that it might be the only good healthy food we eat all day sober. After we are gave eaten and ready to go we meet up with our friends to head off to our favorite bar to watch the game.
Now this headin off to the bar for some people is going at 9am to try and be the first in line. All around whistler at 9am people are lineing up to be able to get a seat. The bars don't open till 11 and the game is at 12.30!! Nuts!! I hear Vancouver is the same with a friend of mine not getting into a bar at 9am it was already full!!
So..... If you know people and are able to get into a bar before it opens then you are in luck and that's what I'm doing. I'd your a family your best luck is to put your kids in ski school and go get yourself in line!!
It's a huge day in hockey but even bigger for Canadian pride!!! I wish the boys luck and I wish the fans lucky to!! I feel like we are in this together!!!


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A Night In The City!

So yesterday I went to Vancouver for the day to check out all the big city sites. I've been spending so much time in Whistler I wanted to get a sence of the vibe in Vancouver.
So I drove down with my parents to meet up with Charlie, his friend Mark and his girlfriend to take in all the sights. Me and my parents got there a bit early so we decided to check out a few of the "Houses". You see each of Canadian's provinces have different houses where visitors can come in an experience a bit about that province. As well other countries have houses as well where you can go and experience that countries food, drink and excitement. The one thing I have noticed about other countries houses is that they are really just large tents where you can go watch a game and drink! The Irish house and German houses in Vancouver are just that, very large white tents placed in parking lots, that they fill with people drinking...I have heard they are a lot of fun.. and by the looks of the lines to get into these tents they must be.
We skipped the drinking houses and went to the Canada House, to see what our country as showing off. Well... it was a huge tent... with lots of lines.. to have your picture taken with a few Olympic symbols, like the torch, skies, bobsled... there were a few Canadian facts, but to be honest it was a bit of a disappointment. We then went off to the Aboriginal Arts Center where it was kinda set up as a native arts and crafts show. Each few days different artist set up a table to sell their crafts. There were some nice and not so nice things.
We then decided to skip the houses and go for a walk around downtown and just check out the street entertainers and walk up and down the roads that have been cut off to cars.
When I met up with Charlie and friends we deiced to take a bit of a long walk down to the ocean to see the athletes village and the other province's houses. Seeing the athletes village by the ocean was super cool and it was huge!!! The other province's houses were as expected from my morning a bit of a disappointment. But it was nice to just check out the sites and see all the people that were enjoying learning about our beautiful country.
It was then 2:00pm and time to figure out where we were going to watch the hockey game at 4:40pm , that's right you need to find a seat that early or you will be left watching the game int he streets in the rain. All the bars and "houses" had huge line ups already and we were getting worried, when we came across a cute little restaurant and bar that was going to be perfect!
We watched the game with about 60 of our now closes friends, you can imagine how many drinks or in my case bottles of wine you can drink in the time we had to wait for the game to even begin.
Right after the big win we ran out onto the streets with what felt like thousands and thousands of your now closes friends from all over the world!!! The energy was eclectic! everyone cheering, giving each other high 5's, hugs and spreading the Canadian Spirit!! I even saw people from other countries cheering and be happy as well. It was a remarkable experience to be walking around the city with that many excited people all cheering on Canada, it made me a very proud Canadian.
We then had to go see the Olympic rings that are normally green, but when we win gold the rigs light up gold!!! AMAZING!!! as well we had to see the flame, and now that they have lowered the fence you can get a better view.
We hit another bar and had drinks with very happy Canadian fans with everyone still giving each other hugs followed by shots!!!
So we didn't really drink at any of the countries houses, but we did drink in celebration of Canada!!!
The city was amazing... I'm so happy that I got to feel the Olympic energy Vancouver is giving off....

Neat fact!!! We have out partied and out drank the past three Olympics put together.. it shows that Canadians really know how to throw a great party!

Beauty,Passion & Strength

I'm in ahhh today with watching Joanne figure skate. All skating events are my favorite for sure, I can remember in 1988 watching Elizabeth Mannly skate and Brian vs. Brian and falling in love with the competition of skating.
Today was not about skating competition, and could not believe that Joanne skated. If you don't know Joanne's mother died of a heart attack on Saturday while in Vancouver cheering on her daughter. The fact that Joanne was even able to skate tonight was amazing!! I'm guessing guessing she had to dig down deep and find a place where she was able to compete tonight.
I know some girls who can't sleep, eat or even get out of bed when their boyfriend breaks up with them. Joanne just lost her mother and skates the skate of her life at the olympics!!! Holly!!! She is an insperation for sure.
The other amazing thing is that Joanne was not ranked all that high coming into these games, but tonight she skated a flawless program. Watching her skate tonight I was filled with emotion, and found myself in tears along with Joanne at the end of her program. And now going into her long program on thursday she is sitting in 3 and skated a personal best!
I know for me she has won gold in my heart a skate that I will remember forever, and I'm guessing has won the hearts of all canadians and inspired other young skaters.
These are the stories that Olympics are made of and remembered for!!!

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All About The Medles

Now that we have won 4 Gold medals I thought it would be cool to let you know how they were made…

Medalists at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games will celebrate with circuit boards hanging from their necks.

That's right. Gold, silver, and bronze medals for the games will contain metal from recycled TVs, computers, and keyboards that might have otherwise ended up as e-waste. In an Olympic first, each medal will be unique, featuring part of an image cropped from two large master artworks by Corrine Hunt, a Canadian designer and artist of Komoyue and Tlingit heritage based in Vancouver, B.C.

For example, each medal will include its own signature elements of the orca and raven artwork, such as the suggestion of the orca's eye, the curve of its dorsal fin or the contours of the raven's wing. Also, the medals are wavy rather than flat, a form inspired by the ocean waves, drifting snow, and mountainous landscapes found in the Games region and throughout Canada.

Guided by tradition

"The orca is a beautiful creature that is strong but also lives within a community. I felt the Olympic Games are a community, too, " said Hunt.

"The athletes may be training but they're always somehow connected to their community, to their teammates, or to their country. The orca is a creature that has wonderful capabilities but can't really survive without its pod," she said.

"My design for the Paralympic medal — a raven on a totem rising — is close to my heart and in honour of my uncle who is a paraplegic. The raven is a creature that is all things and I think Paralympic athletes have that in them," she said.

"They're sometimes given challenges and they rise above them and the raven does the same. I think the creativity of the raven gives us hope — to accept when things don't work out and really rejoice when they do," said Hunt.

The Olympic medals are circular in shape, while the Paralympic medals are a superellipse, or squared circle, drawn from traditional West Coast native designs. At more than 500 grams each, the medals are amongst the heaviest in Olympic and Paralympic history.

The medals by the numbers:

• –20 C was the temperature used to test them.
• 2 designers created them.
• 2.05 kg of Teck's gold were used to make them.
• 6 g of gold plating were used for each gold medal.
• 6.8 metric tonnes of scrap circuit board was diverted from landfills to make them.
• 9 times each medal was struck to shape it into the undulating form.
• 30 steps were used by the Royal Canadian Mint to make them.
• 34 mint engineers, engravers, die technicians, machinists and production experts manufactured them.
• 48 medal design ideas were submitted by artists across Canada and internationally.
• 90 kg is the weight the ribbons can withstand.
• 95 mm is the width of the Paralympic medals.
• 399 Paralympic medals were produced.
• 615 Olympic medals were produced.
• 903 kg of copper were provided by Teck for the bronze medals.
• 1,014 different crops of the two master aboriginal artworks were laser etched into each one-of-a-kind medal.
• 1,950 kg of silver was used for the silver medals.
• 2,817 hours of precision manufacturing was needed to produce them.

"For me, it was really important that in some way every medal would be completely unique from every other medal; and yet be connected to each other and to Corrine's larger artworks in some profound manner. It's a beautiful idea because it means on a conceptual level you need all the medals together to complete the artworks," said Arbel.

On the reverse side, the medals contain the official names of the Games in English and French, the official languages of Canada and the Olympic Movement, as well as Vancouver 2010's emblems and the name of the sport and the event the medal was awarded in.

On the Paralympic medals, Braille is also used and the Games motto, "With Glowing Hearts/Des plus brilliants exploits," is written in white lettering on the medal's blue and green ribbon.

It really is a green Olympics… fingers crossed we win another gold tonight in Ice Dance!

Canada hockey!!!!

On the day of the biggest hockey Olympic rival I have a few thoughts about all the hype around mens Olympic hockey.
Don't get me wrong I'm excited for our mens team to play, hockey is our sport, it's being played in our country, and I believe that it is the one sport that might define us as canadians. But I would rather us focus more of our attention on the canadin athlets that we never hear about and after these games may never hear about again.
I guess I just get a bit frustrated when all we talk about is hockey. CTV announcers disecting every aspect of the game, what players should play on the same line as Crossby, what goaly should play when, who cares!!!! Do we not hear about this for 9 months of the year already??? I know that it is now a selected number of the best canadin players but enought, the pressure is even making me nervious.
I like it when we focus on the athlets that train for the olympics for 4 years, it's become a life long dream, there idols our other olympians like Nacy Green, Barba Anne Scott and many more. The athlets that train for 4 years for a 30 second run, who then miss a gate, fall, flip, or miss the chance, to then have to decide is it worth another 4 years of training to obtain there dream.
after the games are over these hockey player get to continue their dream in the race for the standly cup! Now to quoit my brother " those hockey players Shannon have been playing hockey since they were 4 years old and now have the oppurtuniy to represent their country" and yes my brother us right, however a lot of other athlets have been training for many years with no funding and no money just hoping to win gold for there country!!!
But go Canada go!!! I'm still excited for tonights game, but it might be because I get to drink beer with friends and watch the game in the sunshine!!!

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First event!!!

So yesterday I went to my first Olympic event and I was soooo excited. I won my tickets for being so excited about the olympics at work in whistler so free tickets were even better.
So off Charlie (my lover) and I go to watch the skeleton event!!

We have been told that the line ups are crazy and it's taken people hours to get into the events, but with a bit of a line we got up the mountain greeted my Canadian cheer staff through securty and to the venue in less then an hour. Amazing!!


Once we got inside the venue we were so impressed with everything they have done to Olympicize the place, I really felt like I was experiencing the full olympics! It was awesome to see Vancouver 2010 all over everything and all the people dressed in canadian gear!
We had seats but got super cold fast so decided to walk around. This turned our event into a more tangabul experience, we could get so close the track. These athleats are going 145 miles an hour down 1.5km track in 45 seconds!!!! FAST!!!! And when you are standing by the track you can hear them coming and If your not carefull you will miss them! We walked all the way to the start and being so close was Awesome!!!



We could not think of a better event! We walked the full track drinking beer and wine watching these amazing athleats up close Zoom down the track.
What I learned about this event that's it's about having a good start, staying relaxed while zooming down and stearing only with a slight movement of your shoulders. Nuts!!!
I've got two more events to go to and I'm super excited, but last night was the best!!!










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Olympics not just about sport

The olympics these days are not just about watching sporting events, they have added in the element of the arts to the games. Now I think i'd you were sitting at home watching the olympics on tv you would think I was crazy, the arts at the olympics? But living in a town that us hosting the olympics I have noticed how the arts play a huge roal in the full Olympic experience.
In Vancouver they have a huge amount of arts happening around the games. They are having 65 days of the culturial Olympiad around Vancouver showcasing hundreds of artist from around Canada. Vancouver is an amazing place right now to find canada's best dancers, play writes, actors, painters, aborigional artests and Canadian music. In whistler we don't have as much but we are small and trying.
Tonight I got to experience the free music that is happening every night in whistler when they are giving out the gold medals each night. Each night they represent a different province with a musical guest, tonight it was Ontario night with Fiest playing in whistler and barenaked ladies in Vancouver. There is so much free music happening around town it's hard to keep it all stright.
So as I'm enjoying all the events and sport around town I also live the fact that we are getting to show the world are artsy side!


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Don't Knock the "Own the Podium" Program BBC

I listen to a lot of CBC talk radio on my way to and from work, and today when I was driving home they were talking about the "Own the Podium" program that Canada started 5 years ago. The program was designed to support our Canadian athletes by funding their training and world cup races.
"It Takes A Nation To Win A Medal

One athlete can't win a medal without help. Put your Game Face on and show your support for the Canadian Olympic Team. Cheer on our athletes as they go for gold in Vancouver.

www.ownthepodium2010.com/
this program has a ton of sponsors plus sales of items went towards this program. If you bought any "red mittens" you would have helped support this program.

It caught my attention today when reports coming from BBC news in London were blaming this Canadian program for the death of Georgian Luge athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili.There were blaming the Own the Podium program for allowing Canadian Luges more practice time on the track. They were saying that Canadians were alowed more practivce time, where international athlets had less training time on the track. The BBC were stating that if the Canadians were not hogging all the ice time this never would have happened.
This program has nothing to do with practice time!!! and the IOC is the one that controls practice time on the tracks and said that Canadians were being fare. What is it goin g to be like in 2012 when the games are in London, are they going to give equal training time to all althlets??? I'm guessing not! And how bold to make that statement that we are to blame, when really the program is about funding our athlets not access to venues! Booooo BBC!!!

And it's not like our athlets make that much money out of this porgram... If a Canadain wins Gold they get $20,000.00 compaired to some countries that's very low. In Korea if you win a gold you get a paid salery for life!!!!

My boss Parky is writting an Olympic Blog and he wrote some interesting things about this "Own the Podium" program..


"I read a great article today discussing how the Canadian mens hockey team arrived today into the athletes village in Vancouver. They were discussing how integrated the big NHL stars were in Torino in 2006 and how they were as star struck of the ama teur athletes as they were of them. The own the podium program invested 117 million dollars spread out over 5 years to the entire Canadian contingent of athletes in the 2010 games. The Canadian mens hockey team of 23 players will make 123 million in salaries this year alone. Our Canadian athletes that are bringing such patriotic pride to all of us watching them are doing it on their own dime and continually struggle to make it to World Cup events and train and they do it all for that one chance to hear the roar of the crowds as they medal on the world stage. We are inspired, energized and united by watching these performances and I hope our government and the athletes sponsors continue to allow these amateur athletes to keep doing what they do and sustain their dedication to sport."

So on the eve of us winning our first ever gold medle I say "back off BB C" and gain some tack on who you are blamming and for what!!!

Olympic stories!!!

I think the thing I love most about having the olympics in my back door is all the Olympic stories that people are experiencing. Every day my friends and family have fun things that are happening. We hear Bill Clinton is in town, friends have meet famious people, people have been on tv! Friends are meeting athletes and having lunch with them. My parents eachday have great stories from the athletes village. As well I have friends calling me from Vancouver who are partying it up in the many countries houses, so fun!! it's so exciting hearing all the buzz I love it!!!!
Yesterday I even got

to see Nancy Green close up and I got to see Simon the Swiss ski jumper who won gold!!!
Today my friend Chimi is going to be on much on demand sittting in a hot tub for 2 hours!! And I'm serving the owners of whistler!! Woot! It's only day two and I'm so excited to hear more amazing stories!!!



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And it begins!!!

So much has happened and it's only the first day of the games!!
Last night I watches the opening in a bar in whistler. The place was packed and you feel the Canadian spirit!! It was so fin to be surrounded by so many people that were so excited!!! When Canada walked in the place went crazy!!! And wayne brought in the torch the place went nuts!! And how about Steve Nash?? I love him!!! A great opening for sure!!!

All of our Canadian hearts go out to the fallen Olympic luger! We were getting a bit mad at ctv for continuing to show the footage! We even went to the ctv live post in the village and asked them to stop!!!! It's so sad but people don't need to keep seeing the acident! Whistler does have the hardest and fastest track in the world and today they are going to run the event but from the ladies start. We will have to watch and see what happens.
And I have to say something weather, we do live in a city and mountain city by an ocean! Vancouver is the warmest city in Canada and it always feels like spring we live in one if the worlds last remaining temperate rain forest, it's going to be wet but I hope the world still sees all the beauty that bc has to offer.
Enjoy the first day of events and here's hoping that we win gold in womens moguls!!

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Olympics Ceremonies Opening (Dress Rehearsal)

I went to see the dress rehearsal of the opening ceremonies last night in Vancouver! All volunteers got free tickets and the ability to each buy one ticket each. So last night we gathered a crew together to go down and watch. People were selling there tickets for $250.00, but we were not going to give up this once in a life time event. We got to see the full show! All the musical acts plus the athlete’s parade. If was funny cause they had stand in volunteers for all the athletes, so some volleys were really getting into it waving and cheering. When the fake Canadian Team came in the crowd went crazy!!!! (that’s the one picture shhhh…) We were asked to keep everything a surprise, which I will. I don’t want to ruin the surprises for you! The one thing we did not get to see was the Olympic torch, and the lighting of the cauldron or the athletes vow’s, but everything else we got to see! It’s an amazing show, not over the top! But very Canadian! It will make you proud to be Canadian, and I’m guessing really put you in the Olympic spirit. There were many times throughout the night that I could not believe that I was enjoying this opportunity. To be at the opening of the Olympic games! Crazy!!! We hear that tickets for the real night on Friday are going for as high as $1000.00 nuts!!! As well there is huge talk about who is going to be the final torch barer! Everyone is saying Wayne number #99 and I think they are right! But how about the once that carry the torch in and around the stadium??? I’m thinking a few starts from the 88 Olympics like Brian Orser, Elizabeth Manly?? Or I may just be saying that cause I love ice-skating! All I know is when you are watching the show Friday night it’s going to be amazing!!! And you will feel proud to be Canadian!! Enjoy! I will be watching it in Whistler Village with a hundred of my closest friends.. heheh

Women the True Olympic Athletes

I know that these Olympic athletes work almost their entire life to get to the Olympics, and I would never want any guy out there to think that I don’t believe that they are equally as good, But this is it for women in sport and I believe that they are the true athletes.

Women don’t have any professional leagues, so when they are the best at their sport they are the BEST!! Take womens hockey for instance, these women are the best of the best! These women can’t go any higher then the Olympics. They can’t dream of being a professional hockey player, getting paid for what they love most. NO winning the Gold Medal in Hockey for them is like winning the Stanley Cup for the men. And the mens team can dream of two things the gold medal and Stanley Cup. I’m excited to watch the women compete in all the events, because that is where I see the true passion for there sport.

I’m not ragging on the men, I know they are amazing as well, but there is something said for being the BEST! And ending at that. Most of these women who are the best in their sport become Olympic announcers or mothers, only getting paid in endorsements they were able to make when they were on top…

So to all the women athletes out there… GOOD LUCK!

My Olympic Photos!

So with a Blog you can't show that many photos... so I have added a link to my facebook page where you can view all my Olympic pictures. You don't have to belong to facebook or even be my friend, you can view them at the following web address. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=391816&id=553090095&l=a95f11aab8

Keep checking back, I will be adding all my photos to this album... Enjoy!! and thanks for following & reading along

95% of the mountain open for the games

Lots of people don't know that Whistler Mountain is 95% open during the games!!!
Local folks are excited cause we have been told that many people that come to the games don't go skiing or riding. We have our fingers crossed that we will get lots of snow and only locals to ride it!
There are spots on Whistler Mountain where you can stop and watch the men's and woman's downhill for FREE!! they will be flying by.. but if you can catch a glimpse it would be awesome!!

Life is better today cause I'm riding that 95% with a bunch of staff from camp, Summit Saturdays!! ohhh and House was there!

The Torch!!

I followed the Olympic torch today starting on Squamish at 8:00am with it traveling up a loggers pole to start the day. I then saw it being run around Squamish, it ran right by my house and then i followed it up to Whistler where it ended for the day.
There is something about seeing the Olympic torch and being so close to it. The torch has traveled across the country stopping in so many communities and touching so many peoples lives. I tell you watching it on Friday and feeling all the spirit attached to the torch was amazing. I felt a sence of excitement, a sence of pride and most of all excited to welcome the world to our amazing country.


I even got on the news Global!! but we were not able to see it on the west coast! But I do know that in the east you were able to see me and Zoe getting interviewed! "She may be a blind dog but she can feel the Olympic Spirit!"
I was even surprised in Whistler where so many people have been on the fence around to feel that excitement. i think having such a huge party up in Whistler and ending the relay that day in town changed the mind of many people. I saw people out cheering and screaming all night!! The beer I'm guessing helped, however the Olympic Sprint was ignited!!

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Evening Stroll In Whistler

Tonight after watching the hockey dad and I decided to do a little walk through the village, trying to find the Olympic Spirit! We found a bit of spirit, but at the end of the night decided that we were the true Olympic Spirit!


We went into the Olympic Store and has some fun in the Bobsled, taking pictures with the Olympic Mascots and finding Quatchi on a pair of skies!

We also went into a Canadian store that was taken over by a bunch of Russians! The store was covered in 2014 Russia Winter Olympic gear! We thought they should be giving out vodka at the front door to get buyers in... they did not find us funny!

We then went to see where they are going to be giving out all the medals.. it's looking pretty great from behind a fence! They will be giving out medals as well having musical guests each night!!!

ENJOY the PICTURES!!!!

Even Babies Support the Athlets

So who is supporting all these Canadian athletes? If you were a local in Whistler you would wonder id anyone was excited for the Olympics. So many Whistler folks are not too excited about the Olympics coming. “ It’s going to make our town so busy” “ I lost my job” “who are all these people” “Whistler won’t be kept a secret anymore” “No Parking”. We do have lots of things we could complain about, but I don’t!! I know that hosting a huge event like this is going to help us all out in the long run. Look at the amazing new road; it gets me to Whistler in less then 35min. I’m hoping that next year is a busy season and we can all make money off the tourist! Look at all the people who have been employed by the games, not just in the coming days but for the past 5 years. VANOC has created some amazing programs for youth in schools that will continue, and so much more!!
Yes there are things that we can all be down about… but if we were not pumped for the games we had 5 years to make a plan to go on vacation!! So if your going to stay. I say be excited! Work hard and make lots of money. It’s going to be a huge party, and I hope to be right in the middle!!!
So baby Stella thank you for being excited for the games.. who know one day you may be an Olympian!!

Just a picture of the village up in. Whistler where all the athletes are going to be living. The place is huge!!!

There is also a tent village where the food court is that will hold 900 people!!! It's madness I hope to get some real pictures soon. Don't try and go see the place for yourself there are over 3 securty checks just to get in the first gates!!




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And the BLUE Crew arrive!

Local folks around Whistler are calling all the volunteers and staff wearing “blue” jackets the “Blue People” and these blue people are arriving by the bus load into Whistler village. My parents are among them volunteering for over a month of the Winter Games and the Paralympics Games. But looks can be deceiving, not all people wearing blue are volunteers, no some are ski school staff who lost there job during the Olympics so Vanoc gave them jobs for the Olympics. Some are staff and security, and a ton of them are volunteers.

My parents had there first volunteer shift yesterday where they had to take a early morning bus from Squamish all the way to Whistler. They are volunteering in the Athletes Village doing a number of different tasks. My dad is pumped to meet the athletes, and Susie is excited to see all the media and coaches. The vibe in the village right now is slow to nothing. They don’t think athletes will start arriving till the weekend, so I will keep you posted on who they see. The big news yesterday was the dinning tent for the athletes that seat 900, a huge McDonalds and the chief from the TV show “Chief At Home” is the lead cook. The food is yummy and plentifully!! So what do my parents get for volunteering?? Once cool outfit, free transportation and free opening ceremony dress rehearsal tickets. Incentives.. every three shifts my parents work they get a gift.. humm I hear Olympic pins…

My parents are lucky that they are retired so they can take a month off and volunteer, I look forward to hearing there many stories!

I did tell them however, when walking around the village in Whistler do not wear there BLUE jackets…. I want to keep them looking hip and cool!!

Yes it's my Olympic Blog!!

So as most of you know I live in Whistler where the 2010 Winter Olympic Games are coming in 12 days!!! Yes people are calling it Vancouver 2010, but Whistler is home to the olympics as well. We have many events playing out in Whistler!

• Bobsled
  
• Luge
  
• Skeleton
  
• All Down Hill Skiing events
  
• All Nordic Skiing events
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  • AS well Whistler is going to have tons of parties and shows all in the Village. I believe that Whistler is the place to be during the games. It's going to have a great community spirit and it's going to feel like winter with all the snow.
  • Follow my Blog to see what I'm up to each day. During the games I'm going to three events, lots of parties, and working at a bar in town. I hope to have a great perspective on everything that is happening!!!