Riding the 99-B Olympic express bus...
All of the buses and trains are jammed. Vancouver is so mobbed it's pretty hard getting around, and it can get a bit frustrating.
When I was coming back from UBC the line at the Olympic Village Canada Line station was so long I said forget it and walked across the bridge to downtown instead.
I wasn't that stoked about having to go through like Olympic TSA to get into the venue, though. I don't wear the boots I was wearing to airports anymore because they set off the metal detector every time, so I had to have a pat down as well before they'd let me in the hockey rink. They're taking the security situation pretty seriously, these Canadians.
Lots of empty seats, but a solid turn out for two European teams in Canada. If they don't want so many empty seats they could cut ticket prices a bit, maybe. $100 bucks for Olympic women's hockey? Don't get me wrong, they played hard and they were pretty good, but did the college intramural skill level mean the game wasn't quite spectator worthy?
Obviously I'm no hockey expert. It looked like hockey, I guess. Sweden had some big physical forwards and looked a bit more dangerous on offense, though the Swiss were threatening to even it up for a while. In the end Scandinavian muscle would not be denied, however, and Sweden won easily 3-0.
I didn't really like seeing Switzerland getting shut out though. How does mercilessly crushing your opponent set a good example for the youth of the world? Or am I thinking of a different game, like the Canadian women's team beating Slovakia 18-0? Running it up like that is poor sportsmanship. They could have backed it off a bit after like 10-0, I thought. Maybe the Canucks are taking their "Own the Podium" trash talking campaign a little too seriously?
Speaking of the Opening Ceremonies—Wow, was that boring. Why did they have to drive Wayne Gretzky up to Whistler or wherever to light that other torch?
Anyways, that's all for now.
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