Canada's Dreams Come True

For months I've been seeing "I believe" commercials here in Canada. I may have mentioned them before but in brief, they feature Canadians saying, "I believe." Meaning, they believe that this will finally be the Olympics when Canada wins a gold on their home soil. They didn't do it in Calgary and they didn't do it in Montreal. But they did it in Vancouver. Yesterday, Quebec native Alexandre Bilodeau won gold in the men's freestyle moguls on Cypress Mountain (Bryon Wilson, an American, won bronze). The medal ceremony was tonight in Vancouver and I just watched it. Naturally, all of Canada was going crazy. And I am happy they can finally win at something. They only thin that marred all of this was CTV's terrible commentators. It makes me cringe to listen to them. Amateurs. As much as I get sick of NBC and Bob Costas, at least they know what they're doing. But CTV tries hard, I suppose.
I've been working hard to make my few days here at the 2010 Olympics full of fun. They've mostly been full of waiting in lines but I do have lots of pictures and stories to tell. I won't get into them all now because that's just too daunting for me at this point. But I will post pictures and stories later. They involve Irish, Russian, many Canadian provinces, and Da Vinci. Intrigued? Yes, I know. Wait for it.