Day 6 - Wednesday Feb. 24th

Men's Quarter Final Hockey - Canada vs. Russia - 4:30 pm
How lucky are we!
Jamie and Karen joining us.

Victory Ceremony featuring INXS - great performance!
Jamie and Karen there too!

Colin arrives from Calgary!

I have had E-mail and Facebook message from many of you.
So glad you are enjoying the blog. I am having fun writing it and it will make a great keepsake!
Thanks so much for your messages - I love receiving them.

I must admit I have been feeling a bit guilty not participating in my CardioCore Bootcamp classes (little plug for my instructor and friend Tracy) particularly since I've been enjoying some good food and drink! However, never fear Tracy, the amount of walking we've been doing, up hill and down hill, up stairs and down stairs, is making up for my missed classes....I hope!
We are walking to as many venues as we can and use the excellent transit system when necessary. The weather has certainly been conducive to this. What is surprising though is the amount of walking you do once you get to the venue. For security reasons, and security screening purposes, there is only one entrance and one exit, into all the venues which means long lines and long walks, up and down stairs, to just a few sets of entrance doors. Oh well, it's all part of the experience!

This was an extra special Olympic day for many reasons.
The first reason is the wonderful visit Iain and I, Jamie and Karen had, over lunch, with good friends Sue McLean and Vic Johnston. Sue has been a friend of mine, since our first year at Queen's, many moons ago, and she and I lived together, in 4th year, with one other Sue (boy, did we give people a hard time when they phoned the house asking for Sue) and our dear friend Linda Hume Moore, who had to put up with alot living with 3 Sues (and Iain too, on occasion!)
Vancouver is Sue and Vic's home and it was so good to reconnect! We hope to have more visits when we move to Calgary!

What a day it was for Canadian Women Olympic Athletes, with a bronze in speed skating, a gold and silver for our bobsled teams and a silver in short track relay! Perhaps these women used Joannie Rochette's inspirational and courageous skate,(her best score ever for that short program) the day before, as their motivation. All I can say is WOW! I am confident Joannie will skate again like that tonight, for the long program, and win a medal for her Mom, who is watching over her from above. What a role model she is for our girls....for all of us!
I'm confident our Canadian women's Hockey Team will keep the 'Canadian Girl Power' going and win the Gold today, over the US.

AND, last but certainly not least, how about Canada's Men's Hockey win over OV and the Russians - absolute domination in all facets of the game and it started from the opening face off! I have never seen any Canadian team..any team for that matter,.... play a more complete game of hockey,as a team;every play executed perfectly,as a team! We did not expect a 7-3 final score. It was pure magic and another Olympic Moment for me!

BTW, I have mentioned the enthusiastic cheering and cheers from Canadians and all the different countries. However, the 'Eh Oh Canada GO' cheer is non existent...thank heavens. I guess there are more people, than just my family, that think it is terrible! :-)