Rockstar Wednesday

One party after another... that is what if feels like. I could get used to this!

Rugge described it as a "week long Canada Day" to the interviewer this morning. We were called by the CN Magazine for an update of our trip and that's how he described it. So true. And having organized Canada Day Celebrations in Wellington for 5 years, the Guadsquad knows exactly what that means.

We didn't have anything to go to today except a photo shoot for the CN Magazine. Lloyd met us at the BC Pavillion where they have a little skating rink and daily skates with the mascots which we'd like to catch one day. We were so conspicuous taking pics right in the middle of all the crowds in our CN clothing! Lloyd was off to shoot the next family at the torch so we decided to join them and see how the torch fencing was changed.

They decided to move the fence closer to the torch, create a gap in the fencing to allow for photos and provide a second floor access to see the torch. Interesting. The funnest part of being in that area is the pin collectors. There are people trading and selling all the Olympic pins for this year as well as former years. They are so cool! I like the pin of the torch itself: silver with a gold flame. I might have to buy one of those. Gabe is really getting into it, buying and trading and wearing his pins on his junior hockey Team Canada jersey.

From there we walked to a restaurant Rugge had scoped out on a midnight walk called the Transcontinental a railway restaurant. We lounged, recouperated and headed back through the throngs to the hotel. Jess was starting to crash so Rugge hoofed it to the hotel while the girls and I checked out the BC Pavillion skating fees and did some shoe shopping on the way back (we had to squeeze in some boot shopping in the land of tall boots and skinny jeans!).

Just a little crash time before we were picked up for the Victory Celebrations. Tonight the gold medal is going to a Canadian so it'll be a hoot. We called up Joanne and Tim since Rugge and Jesse decided to stay back. We had quite the fun at the Celebration singing O Canada and screaming with the crowd, laughing at Ben Mulroney and feeling like a rock star ourselves. We have floor seating so when you see the flags hoisted during the medals, we are sitting directly to their left. We haven't seen ourselves on the screen yet but... Then Paul Brandt performed and really got the crowd going so that was fun too. Even Country music can be enjoyed in that setting!

Back to the hotel (we're getting quite good at this celebrating thing!) with Tim and Joanne for some wings, nachos and laughs. Very full days, very heavy sleeps...

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