Countdown: 0They have finally arrived.
Though the city has been taken over for months now, the electricity has intensified in recent days. All our breath-holding, all our patience and anxieties, all culminate today. It is 2010. We are in Vancouver.
I just watched a bit of the Beijing Opening Ceremonies from a couple years back (because I want some comparison when I watch tonight's). I'm actually feeling a little emotional about all this Olympic/patriotism stuff.
I've been feeling like a bit of a tourist as I walk around, staring up to the tops of buildings and pausing at intersections like I did went touring across the country by train. I'm going to absorb as much as I can. These are going to be two weeks possibly unlike any other two weeks I'll experience.
M. and I took a peek at the Mint's set up in SFU's graduate school downtown. That's the biggest coin in the world, eh?
We're keen.
And that, my suspicious friends, is M struggling to lift the $400K block of gold. (Note the chain stopping us from running away with it. I did wonder how the skinny VANOC boy in black was going to stop anyone on his own.)
If there hadn't been so many other folk getting their mitts all over that block, you bet I would've left some teeth marks.
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