Olympic Closing Ceremonies

So we are still here in Vancouver with our Ford Focus, the closing ceremonies were spectacular, this blog is just going to be paragraph after paragraph of how amazing this was. We got tickets for a ridiculous price but now looking back on it, it was worth it. It took us almost eight hours to get to the stadium, which was massive, and then find our seats, about 2 hours later the closing ceremonies started. We were starving by then so we bought these cinnamon sticks and chowed down while we watched the show.

We didn’t really know till later that the massive poles that they set on fire to present the Olympic torch were actually made out of real ice. We were amazed by the light shows; every bit of it was absolutely perfect. When the flames shot up the poles the stadium erupted into screams and shots, our ears hurt so bad that we had to buy ear plugs. What I am trying to say is that we weren’t prepared at all for this and they made money of people like us.

We got some fantastic pictures of the snow board dancers. They came out right after the torch was lit and hundreds of them danced around the ice pyramid. They spelled words and made symbols it was just incredible how organized the kids were. There was a lot of music and nations national anthems, most of which you couldn’t understand. A few of them had the words on the screen translated, others just had videos. Each country had their own opportunity to present themselves, either by song or entertainment of their choice. Some used skaters, others used dancers and some just simply sang with light shows.

They had all the Olympic participants on one side of the stadium and all the productions were directed directly at them, it was a cool little way of honoring their hard work. A lot of the speakers spoke of the young man who died during practice just before the sports started, it was a sad story but the crowd applauded for him all the same.

Were heading back in a few minutes so this blog will reach home before we do, sadly. But if you ever get the opportunity to go to the winter Olympics you definitely should, I wish it was here in Vancouver every year, well see if we can do it again in four years, I am already making preperations.