oh canada

hokiedina, i have some cool stories for you.
as you probably know, the olympics are being held in vancouver this year.  weeeell it has been quite great lately.
the russian figure skaters are practicing in abby, so heidi and i drove down the other day to see them.  for free.  no big deal.  they let you in for twenty minutes at a time.  well we were at the end of the line, so by the time we got in there weren't any seats left.  i was content to stand at the back, but heidi talked to a volunteer and she ran off to find us seats.  a few minutes later she came back and said that there were two seats left in the VIP section.
no big deal.
so we got to sit in the VIP section, directly behind the coaches, a couple rows from the ice, in the middle of a ton of russian spectators.  and, to top it all off, the man sitting next to me spoke english pretty well, so he told us things that the coaches said and joked around with us a little bit.  it was excellent.
we saw Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitri Soloviev, one of the ice dance couples.  so they didn't do a lot of jumps, but they have some really cool lifts and excellent footwork.  one of their numbers is really cute--very russian.  i am torn between rooting for my country or the nice russians who let us watch them practice.

then today, i went to my practicum, a little bummed because the torch was being run through today and i couldn't go with heath and the robson boys to watch.  but as soon as i got to work, my boss invited me to go see it with him and his wife.  so we went out at about 9:30 and got a spot right by where one of the torch exchanges was.  and thanks to miss tashayar, i had a disposable camera in my purse.  excellent.

i'm so stoked on this olympic business.  too bad we're having almost record high temperatures and they're having to ship in snow.  hah.  oh Canada...

Jamie out.