Olympic Digest 2/10/2010

This town is just buzzing with talk and activity.
The world is welcome to see our beautiful city through the rain LOL. But remember ladies, rain keeps your skin moist, that's my opinion, so you are in for a treatment !!
Canada's Man in Motion, Rick Hansen, wheeled into Richmond's O-zoneto site setting up the torch for Richmond City.Rick Hansen is the man who spun around the world in his wheelchair to help raise funds for spinal research.
He is a man of great spirit , Olympic or otherwise who took his disability and pain and turned it into a hugely successfful life.
Traffic jams abound LOL. Friends today were talking about an hour trying to get out of parking lots, not in , but out...
A good Samaritan found a wallet full of foreign currency and he turned it in!!That's a Martha moment.
America's first ice lounge opened today, Minus5 is the name. A New Zealand proposition that calls for people to touch and feel hand crafted ice sculptures. Hope tha rain won't wash it away .
Olympic pins abound for pin collectors who can find them in West Vancouver $5.00 apiece.
Mayor Gregor Robertson rehearsing his drumming capabilities in David Lam Park. This is a wonderful venue for musical adventures. Chelsea, my granddaughter, played there in the Lower Mainland high School jazz band.
Cute story, one woman took two medium sized red Olympic mittens apart and sewed them together as a sweater for her poodle , the thumbs being the front legs. Now that is the Olympic spirit.
So much happening, wish I could get there but no cars are allowed down town , noparking,no taxies and the transport line ups are hours long, too long for my old legs. But I can feel the excitement. It is everywhere.