Lots of excitement for Ray and me. We went to Safeway and the store was totally festooneed with Canadian flags, Chinese New Year Lanterns and banners and Valentine balloons. The store was full of people all dressed in red and wearing Canada flags, Olympic mittens and scarves.
as we stood at the pharmacy i said the Ray sn Joyce oh listen tot he drums beating thinking it was Native drumming. She laugh and said that was the bakery beating up .wahtever they were making LOLOL. We wondered what was happening and discovered that the Olympic Flame was passing through on the street outside the store. I was so excited because I thought we would never get to see any of the Olympic sites or the Flame. So we waited in the rain all the while chatting to total strangers who were filled with Olympic spirit. Susan Anton one of the city councillors came up and shook my hand and introduced herself. We had a small chat , she said "you are not really dressed for the weather". We laughed because we had no idea we would be standing in the rain with no umbrella getting cold and wet LOL/
People were all chanting Go Chuck GO, we had no idea who Chuck was :>))....Then the crowd began to roar as the lead vehicles approached and we knew the time was near. As the Flame turned into the street ALL became quiet as things do at important time. The most exciting part was the hand off of the Flame was right in frontof us!! My eyes teared up, I had been so fortunate to see the Flame !!
We kind of figured out that Chuck was the person to whom the Flame was handed off. haha.
Nice surprise!!
2 comments:
Oh, that sounds wonderful...I could nearly picture being there! Thanks for telling the story!
It was wonderful Beth..Thankyou for your comment.
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