Olympic Adventure

Steve, Kahlen and I headed downtown to take in some olympic spirit and fun today. We had planned to head down early in the day and just go where the wind took us. Unfortunately for us, our plan, and my brother... my brother ended up in the emergency with REALLY bad stomach pain :( After some IV morphine, and his GF arriving and being by his side, he started to feel... well nothing really (morphine has that effect on yah)... and I left the hospital knowing he was in capable and loving hands. Steve and I decided to head downtown even though it was really late in the day with the "hey, at the very least we'll get out, get some sunshine, and take in the energy of the games". So, we stuck K in the sling (a Hug of Joy. Quite easily the best sling EVER!) and walked the half a block to the sky train station. Miss K was a HUGE flirt and ham on the train (once she got used to it), and had everyone 'oooo'ing and 'ahhhh'ing over her cuteness! Steve wanted to get a picture of her on the train (since she was being so cute) and this was the best he could get. Needless to say, she did not want to pose for the camera.

Once we got downtown we decided to walk around and get the lay-of-the-land. There were TONS of people. We knew there would be lots, but lots just doens't cover it. IT WAS PACKED! But it was great. The energy of the crowd was fun, polite and very canadian :) Any time anyone yelled "GO CANADA" the sea of people erupted into cheers. It felt wonderful to be Canadian! We wandered along taking in street shows of song, dance and even magic. We wandered in and out of stores and Miss K sang the whole way with a HUGE smile on her face. And then, right on cue (4:00 nap time), Miss K put her head down on my chest, closed her eyes and fell asleep. So I swung her into a laying down position in the sling and she snoozed away as we walked some more. I really wanted to see the lantern tree forest, having seen other peoples pictures of it, I though it looked REALLY cool. It was o.k., but not as large and impressive as I had thought it would be.  It made me think back to when we were trying to buy a home, and we loved all the pictures of a few places but when we got there we quickly realized that the pictures were more exciting than the home.

Knowing that we were on a time constraint (I needed to be home in time to go to Ladies night with the NICU mommas) we decided that we should set course for the Olympic Culdron to make sure we got the chance to see it (we are planning another, longer trip to see more next week but you never know, things come up and plans change quickly). Kahlen woke up just as we arrived and desperately wanted to be held by daddy which was fine with me, and made for some nice photo opps.

So cute in their matching jerseys. Thanks Auntie K!