Nicole’s Blog

Vancouver has gone mad. Or more accurately… the people in Vancouver have gone bat shit crazy. I’ve never seen so many people on the streets celebrating just being here and being Canadian. It actually really cool to be in the midst of all this positive patriotism. Not arrogant patriotism like a certain neighbour of ours [...]

I went to see the torch relay today. The torch came within 2 blocks of our place and so I bundled up and walked to the corner of 5th Ave and Rupert. There weren’t any protesters there at that point. The course got detoured due to protesters earlier in the day. I don’t understand why [...]

So I had my first shift up at Whistler Athlete Village and it was a four hour training session. I made my way up there and when we arrived early they were a little surprised and so we had a quick tour, lunch then did a bit of shopping at the village store. Paul, another [...]

Yay!!!! We have a place to live! And they know that we have dogs! Yahoo! I’m so happy! Al did an amazing job of finding us the perfect place. A few blocks to the beach. Ten minute walk to transit. A/C, 2 bedrooms, laundry in suite, secure parking for our motorcycles. Yes! Al’s been working [...]

Hey all,
I was downtown today and the excitement is palpable. I saw a lot of different groups downtown. I think that the Sochi team from the next winter olympics were all over town. Today I saw a whole bunch of people with hundreds of pins on their clothes. I forgot to take my camera today [...]

The weather is bad in the Northeast US but really? You gotta watch it to believe it. Let’s all take some ativan (wonderdrug of the universe) and just stay inside with some hot cocoa and everything will be all right.
That is all, good night.

After I came home from Sayulita, I washed my clothes and within 28 hours I was back at the airport for our flight to Melbourne. Al desperately wanted to miss the Olympics so I agreed to go for a week to get him into the country and then come back for 31 days in order [...]