Day 14 - A Golden Day!

What a beautiful day today!

I got to sleep in, have a shower and leave for the bus around noon as I've finally figured out my timing for getting to the village.

The sun was bright, not a cloud in the sky and by noon it was already about 12 degrees and feeling like spring. The grass is green here and the krokuses are up in people's flower beds.
I had a great sleep last night. I went to bed around 10:30pm and didnt wake up until around 9am. So I was very rested and ready for a fun day and it was a really fun day.

I was deployed to the Welcome Centre again today which is a little slow now that the games are on and most of the athletes have already checked into the village, however, a lot of athletes use this entrance to get dropped off by their drivers and all the hockey teams including the Canadian men and women use this entrance when returning from their games as it is closest to the Canada House residence here at the village.

One great thing about this post is that there is a TV located at the back exit to the village so I try to get there right away so I can catch olympic coverage while I'm working. So I got to see Christine Nesbitt's gold medal skate in the 1000m long track speed skating event which was made even better when at 9pm tonight she came through my post with her coach as she returned from her medal ceremony where she got her gold medal. She was absolutely beaming with joy and she asked me if I wanted to see her gold medal. She carefelly removed it from her Team Canada jacket and unwrapped it from the felt she had it wrapped in - it was beautiful. Inscribed on the back of the medal is the event, date and her winning time. She said she was still in shock. It was a pretty cool moment.

Shortly after she left then Team Canada hockey team came through and Sidney Crosby passed through my post so I got to say 'great goal' after he scored the winning goal in the shootout tonight over Switzerland. He just smiled and said 'Thanks, I wish I'd scored on the first one" then headed off with his buddies.

I'm off for two days now and am heading down to Everett Washington with Ted tomorrow afternoon to catch a National Lacrosse League game between the Washington Stealth and Calgary Roughnecks. We are going to drink a lot of cheap American beer and stay the night and come home on Saturday. Should be fun.

(Sorry for the lack of photos lately, they have put a complete ban on anyone taking any photos in the Residential area of the village. This came into effect as soon as the pro athletes arrived. So I'm hoping to break the 'law' next week and snap some pics in and around Canada House and some pics of the village with all the flags everywhere.)