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路路Omega Qualified WatchmakerHad a rough Sunday last week with falling and ending up in the hospital, but one week later and things are certainly much improved...
Hockey is basically a religion here so despite the early start time, bars were open and serving all across the country, and I'm sure some people will be tired going into work tomorrow, but it as worth it!
The good thing about being banged up and not being able to work much over the last week is that I watched far more of the Olympics than I thought I would be able to. 馃憤
Canada had a good Olympics overall. Sure we had some sports that we usually do very well in that we didn't, like short track speed skating, but overall this was a great Olympics for us. Both men's and women's hockey teams went undefeated, and our women's curling rink was the first to go undefeated in the women's game, and the only men's rink to do it was Canada in Vancouver. Our men didn't do that this time, but won the gold handily anyway.
Certainly nervous times in the women's hockey gold medal game. We were actually in the US to be interviewed for our Nexus cards that day, and listened to most of the game on the radio on the way there. Went inside the border crossing area (on the US side) and were met by one of the Canadians working there - my first question was "Do you have a TV here?!" No but the radio was on with the game. We were down 2-0 to the US at the point. Heard us get one goal in the 3rd, and the we pulled our goalie, and scored with less than a minute left to tie it up.
We had to go to another room for an interview with both the US and Canadian agents during the sudden death OT, and we heard a big cheer from the other room. The Canadian agent said "That sounds good!" and I said "Please go check - you can't leave us all hanging!" She came back with two thumbs up - it was pretty amazing...the US customs people were not very happy...but I still got my Nexus card. 馃槈
So to everyone who has PM'd and emailed me, sorry I was a bit busy this morning, and I'll get to you as soon as I can...
Cheers from a very happy Canuck this morning...
Hockey is basically a religion here so despite the early start time, bars were open and serving all across the country, and I'm sure some people will be tired going into work tomorrow, but it as worth it!
The good thing about being banged up and not being able to work much over the last week is that I watched far more of the Olympics than I thought I would be able to. 馃憤
Canada had a good Olympics overall. Sure we had some sports that we usually do very well in that we didn't, like short track speed skating, but overall this was a great Olympics for us. Both men's and women's hockey teams went undefeated, and our women's curling rink was the first to go undefeated in the women's game, and the only men's rink to do it was Canada in Vancouver. Our men didn't do that this time, but won the gold handily anyway.
Certainly nervous times in the women's hockey gold medal game. We were actually in the US to be interviewed for our Nexus cards that day, and listened to most of the game on the radio on the way there. Went inside the border crossing area (on the US side) and were met by one of the Canadians working there - my first question was "Do you have a TV here?!" No but the radio was on with the game. We were down 2-0 to the US at the point. Heard us get one goal in the 3rd, and the we pulled our goalie, and scored with less than a minute left to tie it up.
We had to go to another room for an interview with both the US and Canadian agents during the sudden death OT, and we heard a big cheer from the other room. The Canadian agent said "That sounds good!" and I said "Please go check - you can't leave us all hanging!" She came back with two thumbs up - it was pretty amazing...the US customs people were not very happy...but I still got my Nexus card. 馃槈
So to everyone who has PM'd and emailed me, sorry I was a bit busy this morning, and I'll get to you as soon as I can...
Cheers from a very happy Canuck this morning...
