Well, I'm pretty sure that we didn't win any medals, but we had a great time at the Olympics.
No wait at the border, which was unexpected and awesome.
The first morning, we went to the taping of the Stephen Colbert show, after a painful night. Kat refused to sleep until 3AM. And then we got up at 6:30 AM, and we headed to Ann's cousin's in the city. We piled in their official Olympic vehicle and, headed to the show's taping. It was a beautiful, sunny day. A bit muddy at the park, and a long wait for Colbert to show up, but as we were hanging out with Ann and Mare and Darrel (from Calgary) and Kat was playing in the mud and at the playground it was all good. We hardly noticed that we hadn't eaten anything. He showed up eventually and he was very funny, as per usual (but don't look for us in the show, I'm confident that you won't see us). And Kat found some interesting friends in the meantime.
Doesn't she look happy to be awakened? We explained that it was her fault. To her credit, she was a champ on 4 hrs sleep- she was up for anything and quietly crashed in BOB for a few hours, so we could move around DT Vancouver easily (no demanding to walk, etc).
Th polar bear folks were handing out stickers. Some said something like 'the oil sands are killing me' . I had to get a pic of the sticker on Darrell, the oil guy!
Here's our disheveled little one. Pocket untucked, zipper down, milk residue all over her face, and she's not covered in mud, YET.
There's the giant polar bear. You'll see more of them in the video below. These folks were polar bears with a giant 2 (or more) person polar bear, with a sign "ColBEAR report" and drawing attention to the plight of the polar bears. Kat was their biggest fan.
Colbert on stage, with the moose and flag in the background (if you're looking from the front).This was so friggin cute. Kat followed these folks around for a long time. She had never seen a walking/talking/dancing polar bear before.
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