2 Years Ago Today We Won the Olympic Hockey Gold

Remember when we dominated the Winter Olympics at Van2010?! YA buddy.

This was the final day of the Games, and…

…our 16th Gold, more than any other country, EVER.

GO CANADA GO!

I was making videos for Sun Media, writing for Vancouver 24 Hours newspaper, running around looking good because Canada Goose kitted me out… Van2010 was the best.

This was my final article.

I love how this was known around the wolrd as “The Party Olympics”.

Simultaneously, we set the record for the most gold medals ever won at a Winter Olympics.  Sums us up pretty well, eh?

This was our coming out party, Canada!

It’s important to keep this patriotic momentum going; we’ve been humble for long enough about being the best country in the wold.

You know those times when you got goosebumps during the Games, or when your eyes welled up?  When you were holding your breath and forgetting to blink while you willed us to victory?

That feeling, that’s the one that needs to be celebrated and screamed a little louder.

I don’t want to leave here.  I want to live in this bubble forever.

Thank you Vancouver, for showing me the time of my life.

See you soon.
I’m so coming back.

xoxo,
Keri

 

Here’s a good post I did about the Olympics last summer.

Oh Canada ILU.

 

 

A Dose of Canada Minus the Internet

I’m back; got back late last night.  It was great to escape the city.

Look, the snow found me.

That photo isn’t doing it justice; zero visibility, roads covered in black ice and you have to drive 10km/h.

Stayed here ahaha I’m definitely not in the city anymore.

Hello friend.

Woke up to this, woah.

It was nice being in the thick of winter in the middle of my “Avoiding Winter 2012” tour. Like a reminder, you know?

I travelled up to Snowshoe Resort where there is no Internet OR cel signals because of the observatory down the hill.

Nice to have it out of my hands wait – I may have made a video once about taking breaks from online life…. hang on I’ll look…

Indeed I did.

Can you leave your phone at home when you go out? Give it a shot, it’s good for you.

I’ll tell you all about the mountain and observatory this week.

I took some photos like this, for a SmartenUpInternet post about natural disguises.

Nice to be back online, TTYL

 

KeriBlog

 

 

 

 

 

I Miss My View

This was my view for 3 years.

That’s the cutest airport, Porter.

 

The shortest ferry ride in the world.

Different filers on my Olympus PEN.

There’s CBC, my first job when moving here.

I ended up becoming their inaugural made-for-web-show.

TheCanadianExplorer.com

Can you picture me standing at the bottom of the Rogers sign the night I guarded ACDC? Ha.

Woah this winter weather this is outstanding!

Thanks for a great visit home, Toronto, see you in the spring!!

 

 

 

 

 

PS – Gah, just realized: how can I not have a ‘Toronto’ blog category? Now I do.

I'm Baaaaaack

Ohhhh it’s nice to be in my own country. I’m enjoying tremendously my time down south, but it’s tough to beat Canada.

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Did you know Canadian customs canNOT read what US customs wrote on your passport? Think about that.

Took me a minute to remember my Visa pin number. We are ahead of the States in credit card security.

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I celebrated it for three years because Canada really is the best country there is.

It’s clean here, safe, friendly, and you can do and be how you like and we’re like, oh okay cool. Plus we’re known around the world as polite and promoters of peace. How beautiful.

And so very worth protecting. Please do that.

Autoshow tomorrow! TTY then.

xo Keri