Gold medal in Women’s Ski-Cross.
And they won gold in Ice Dancing yesterday.
That is helping ease the sting of losing in Hockey to USA a few days ago.
Canada is playing Germany in men’s Hockey right now, leading 1-0 at the end of the 1st period.
We were supposed to be at the Ski-Cross, but they cancelled our tickets due to lack of snow in the standing room only area. It was a wet snow-storm today. Looks like our cold/wet-weather gear would have been put to good use. As it was it has been snugly stored in Ashlan’s room.
We spent the day touristing instead.
First to Stanley Park and the Vancouver Aquarium.
A pretty good aquarium. Both large and small mammals and lots of different fish.
Pictures in the gallery are: Interesting trees – kind of like Madrona trees, but lighter, Scarlett Ibis, Blue Hyacinth McCaws, Tortoise (sorry – did not get more detail), Butterfly (again, no detail, but I really liked the pattern on the wings), 2-toed sloth reaching for food (Ashlan could not believe I took a picture of the butterfly and not the sloth), Pacific White-sided Dolphin, Belugas and a Sea Otter preening.
Then it was back on the buses to Granville Island.
We were going to go to Swiss House for lunch, but there was a 1-hour wait (in the rain) for more $$ food than we had planned. So we opted for the public market instead. A good choice.
Ashlan was on a Perogy mission. It was kind of like the Amazing Race. You enter this market full of many different stalls, all with different kinds of food, and you have to search through all of them to find the Perogy stand. We finally did. After noshing on perogies, piroshki and cabbage roll we set off on a dessert mission. raspberry custard and dark chocolate tarts rounded out the food fest.
This meant we had to abandon the market and head back out into the rain to get back to the bus line.
On the way a touristy shop beckoned. As we picked out a few cards, the person in line behind us had a pair of the Red Mittens. I asked here where they were in the shop. She said you had to ask for them. They did not have the large, but they did have the larger of the small. So I asked for a pair. But when the clerk requested $22 for a pair of $10 mittens I realized these were black market red mittens. I declined to pay the black market rate.
Oh, and anybody watching the Colbert Reports from Vancouver, check out the set of nations flags in the background. The clip we saw today included a Skull & Cross-bones.
So we are packing tonight. The vacation ends tomorrow, and Ashlan’s vacation starts back up. Canada 4 – Germany 1 at the end of 2 periods. One other educational note. When we were watching Switzerland vs. Slovakia women’s hockey we kept hearing a chant of, “Hoc-key, hoc-key, hoc-key.” Then at Curling, with the Swiss in attendance, we realized it was probably, “Hopp Schweiz.” However, we are not able to translate Hopp to anything, but that is what Ashlan saw on a sign. Hoch translates to Great, so maybe that was it. In any event, it was unlikely just, “Hoc-key.”
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