I Touched GOLD!

Today was another off day for us. Kind of wish we were able to get some events in town for these days, but at between $500-3000 per ticket for an event, no way! That being said, the rest day is nice. 12-16 hour days are hard.

Now, go figure, today was a long day with lots of waiting, not much of a rest.

We headed out into town around 10 with the intentions of just wondering around and soaking it all in. Walking along the waterfront we ended up seeing a live filming of the Colbert Report? Seemed pretty lame to me, but he sure had his followers. Anyway, we only watched some of that and wondered off. We ended up byt the Russia House, which we were told was a place to see. Last time the line up was insane, this time only a few people waiting so we jumped in line.

Now we quickly realized that they didn't even open until 12! That's going to be 1.5 hours of waiting. Dammit! We figured it would be less of a wait now than any other time. So we wait. Within a few minutes I was pretty impaitent. I hate waiting.

So the hype is that Russia is holding the next Winter Olympics, so this place was suppose to be show casing that. Turns out the only thing they were show casing were large corporate sponsors! The cell company, oil company, even Voltzwagon had a "booth" (more like a large room). It was very lame. Nothing to even do or really see. Totally not worth the wait. They had their clothing sponsor there, so we checked out the store. I really liked the gear, but at $300 for a hoodie!!! NO WAY!

Off we went. Lunch time.

After lunch we decided that we wanted to head over to the Mint Pavilion. Here you could again, wait in line, to see the Olympic Medals, and even touch them! Ugh. So again, we wait. It was starting to get cold and all I had was a sweater. We were told it was going to be a 3 hr wait, but within 1.5 hr we were inside. Woo Hoo! Wrong..... now, we wait inside. Dammit. At least I was warm.

Finally, with our white glove on we finally got inside to see and touch the medals. I've seen a lot of medals in my time, but this was by far the best medal I've ever seen. I think this will set a new standard for Olympics to come. Every medal is different. They each have their own etched design on them. The coolest thing is that they are not just flat, they have a wavey contour, representing waves and mountains of BC. Really cool.

After the short visit with the medals it was back home for that rest. Skeleton was on the schedule for us next.