February 28, 2010
[Canada wins Gold!!!!]
It's weird that today is the final day of the Olympics. 17 days ago people from all over crowded streets, protests rang out, people partied and are still partying.. and through the Olympics, people wore Canadian colours.. sported Canadian sweaters, hoodies, toques, pants, mittens.. scarves!
Ty and I were on the edge of our seats watching the Gold Medal hockey game (Canada VS USA) this afternoon. We streamed it live from the CTV website onto the big screen. I've never been this into hockey before. I guess because it's such a big game I know which side I'm on whereas with smaller NHL games they aren't as important or intense.
We had DQ for lunch and a DQ ice cream pizza pie for dessert. A frozen ice cream pizza pie! I didn't know DQ even made those.
We were afraid of what would happen had the americans beat us. I never really thought about it before but it IS an Olympic event and so all of Canada is watching from Nova Scotia allll the way to Vancouver Island and also the rest of the world.. if they really give a care about the winter Olympics at all. So cheers rang out and when they screened it live, you could really feel the excitement and happiness as well as anxiety when the US scored on us in the very last minute of the third period pushing us to a tied game!!! We went into 4th period with 20 more minutes which would have turned into a shoot out and then sudden death but we didn't have to go through all that. :) We ended with 3-2 for us! Yay!
Tonight the flame is passed on to Russia for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.. amazing that the flame has come all this way from Athens and has never been put out.
Posted by jme at February 28, 2010 6:35 PM