Happy Valentine's Day, Chinese New Year's, Olympics

Okay, well here in Vancouver Rob is off work for two weeks during the Olympics.  Sara meanwhile has just started a job at the local university. Today was a beautiful day (sunny, 10 degrees) so we took a trip downtown.

Everything looks like Olympics - the conspicuous volunteers walking around with their big name tags and blue jackets/hats, the large advertisements on buildings, and crowds of pedestrians crowding every street corner.

We walked down to the waterfront to see the Olympic cauldron.  Unfortunately, we couldn't get up close since it was fenced off.  We'll just have to wait until the Olympics are over before we climb it.

Next we walked to Robson square where we saw the Olympic mascots on ice (including Rob's favourite - Quatchi) and people zipping across overhead.  Line ups prevented us from joining in the zipline fun (4 hour wait!).  There was a 1.5 hour wait to get into the Vancouver Art Gallery which has a large Da Vinci exhibit on loan from the Queen.  We're hoping to return on a weekday when the line will less crazy.

By this time, the day was approaching 2pm (which is our laundry time) so we decided to head home.  The busses are unreliable with all the foot traffic delays downtown, so we just walked home over the Burrard bridge.  Home to watch the olympics!