The O-Zone

Today we spent the day at the O-Zone (Olympic Zone) in Richmond. We saw a lot more than I anticipated of the Olympic scene. I guess its safe to say there's more to the Olympics than the actual sport, who knew? This was a random statue we saw on our way to the O-Zone.

Before we got to the O-Zone we happened upon a fountain full of cranberries. Curious, we stopped and asked what it was all about. Apparently there is a huge population of cranberry farmers in the Vancouver area and they wanted people to know that there is more the Vancouver than just the Olympics.

Erica, Lynden and I enjoying the sea of cranberries.

This is our view from atop of the ferris wheel.  Those Olympic rings are filled with about ohhh 13 million cranberries (give or take a few).  On the other side of the field was giant maple leaf filled with floating cranberries with the Olympic flame in the middle.

Unfortunately there are no pictures of me in the bobsled simulator because at that point the camera and I parted ways.  It went to the ice skating rink and I stayed to try my hand at winning the gold. (Everyone who tried took home the gold but it was still a cool deal all the same).  There are also no pictures of the Chinese dragons that danced their way through the crowd to celebrate the start of the Chinese New Year today because at that point we were all so hungry that the largest dancing dragon in North America really wasn't important enough to photograph...oops.

Tomorrow we are headed to Whistler...no tickets to an event yet.  Tomorrow is a new day though!