As promised here are the awesome pictures of the Olympic flame at the reception in the Marco Polo cruise ship terminal.
I managed to weasel out of going by feigning one of my serious illnesses. Hubby did not even fight me on this one, so either I am getting really good at it or he is on to me. What ever my non-Olympic ass stayed warm on the sofa.
But even people who were officially there were bored. Look at this guy…well of course – his torch is out – so…
Here is a picture of the flame. At least I think it is the flame or maybe the guy in the front row caught his hair on fire. Either way, a highly entertaining moment. 
Hubby came home with pockets full of Olympic swag – these two little glow in the dark ‘Coke’ bottles which change colour, I think I’ll make Christmas ornaments out of them and then these four little collector bottles with real ‘Coke’ in them. We are NOT allowed to drink these. Under NO circumstances because they are registered with numbers and everything and are Official Olympic Coke issue!!
Wow! Only in Canada. I read somewhere that in Germany they gave away Mercedes at their Olympic rally.
Hubby doesn’t trust me because he made me promise not to drink these ‘Cokes’, he like repeated it 3 times.
And I’m like all “Yeesh! O.k. already! But –’
“No! do not drink these ‘Cokes”
‘Well what if we were really really thirsty and ran out of the “other cola’ and it was the middle of the night?
‘Absolutely not! Not ever….drink water.’
Which is kind of funny because everybody knows that you can’t drink the water in Saint John.
‘What if it’s a disaster of some sort, say like a hurricane and all our water supply is cut off…can we drink them then?’
“NOOOOO! They are Official Coke Collector bottles of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver!!!!’
‘O.K.!!’ So of course all night long I obsessed about these Cokes. They were calling to me – no joke.
So if this is an indication of our retirement savings plan – these little bottles of Coke? We are in deep ca-ca.
Here is the mascot ‘Quatchi.’ he is one of three official mascots.
I guess the other guys were too busy to come. The other two are ’Miga” and ‘Sumi’ who apparently has amazing powers – I think he is the torch lighter. Is it my imagination or do all these guys sound Japanese?
Sooo….that was it.
