Olympic Experiences

We had talked about taking the kids into Vancouver to “experience” the Olympic Spirit first hand, but I was really hoping that we wouldn’t have to.

I’m not really “into” the Olympics and I’m even less into the massive crowds and craziness that events like this create.

But, after we woke up and crawled outta bed on Monday morning, the kids still really wanted to go into town and so…..off we went.

We drove into the Joyce Street Sky Train Station and from there bussed down to Granville Street.

Siah was SO excited to be going on the Sky Train. His excitement alone, made the day worth it.

Here he is sitting with his Papa. Jon’s parents joined us for the trip.

The crowds were not as bad as I had imagined them to be, but then again, I like to imagine worst case scenarios and then I’m typically NOT as stressed as I could be.

We walked up Granville Street to Robson and that’s where the fun began. One thing that cracked me up was that Jeremy was SO disappointed that we weren’t going shopping. He pointed out the Sears on Robson and was desperate that we go in to check things out. He LOVES to shop. Funny Boy!

We saw a Paper Lantern Forest. I imagine that it would look AMAZING at night.

Remarkably, this dude didn’t really stand out as being terribly crazy and wierd…..he was just one of the entertainers. Gotta love Vancouver!

Jeremy LOVED this fish, and seeing as he was having the hardest time coping….I was just thrilled that he was showing any sort of an interest in anything. It wasn’t until his Nana explained to him that this could be a once-in-a-lifetime experience and that she had never seen the Olympics firsthand in her whole life, that he started to perk up a little. I guess he figured that he could just go to the next Olympics when they came around again.

I thought that my dad (a fisherman) would love this eagle, as well.

It’s hard to believe that this young lady was my very first baby…

We walked down to Waterfront to get the obligatory Olympic Torch Shots….

Then we took the Waterfront Skytrain back to Joyce and called it a day.

It was a bit much with the 4 kids, BUT……we can look back now and say that we were there. We went. We saw. We experienced……and now we can cross that one off our list.

Yah, I know that I’m still not sounding all that enthused about it all, but Jon walked away feeling the “Olympic Spirit” a bit stronger. That’s gotta count for something, eh?

There are lots more pics to see and you can click through and see them all HERE!