Vancouver Olympics 2010: Day 7

Today the alarm went off at 4:30am...so that we could catch a skytrain, to catch a sea bus, to catch a bus to Whistler. My sister and I had tickets for the Women’s biathlon... but we didn’t know that we had to hike a marathon to see it. We arrived at the Whistler Olympic Park at 8:30am thinking we had some time to kill so we almost took a bus into Whistler Village. At the last second, we decided to stay and head up to the event. (good thing or we would have actually missed the whole event!)

On the way up, it was like a winter wonderland with the biggest snowflakes falling. Finally, some snow at the Olympics!! This amused Danielle for the first 5 minutes but the novelty wore off soon. It turned out to be over an hour hike up the mountain to get to the venue... (it might have not been so bad if we hadn't gotten soaked in the rain in Vancouver)

Once we got to the top, it was quite amazing. I had no idea that biathlon was such an exciting sport to watch. The German fans were crazy and loud but for good reason as they won the gold!

Check out some of the live action..

At the top, I ran into some of the ice carvers that I met while at the Canada Games in the Yukon in 2007...Small World...

The hike down was not as bad...and then we headed off to Whistler Village for a little sightseeing and shopping... At the rings, they have made a makeshift memorial for Nodar Kumaritashvili, the Georgian Luger.

And the gold medal goes to... (drumroll please!)

They asked me to join the Canadian Bobsled team but I told them no, as my thighs are big enough and that is without even trying...

A sleepy bus ride down the mountain got us home just in time for the Victory Ceremony...We got to see Canadian Snowboarder, Mike Robertson get his silver medal...