Remember the Olympics? Van2010

Last week, South Korea was awarded the Games in 2018. Good luck to them.

Let’s take a look back at ours last year. Many of these photos you’ve not seen, I’ll throw in a couple episodes, too.

The photo text is true; there’s almost no point to posting that photo. H U G E.

‘Irish House’ was out my window, where I lived.

Right in the middle of everything. Irish House was THE place, not being dramatic. They were collecting noise violation fines before the Games even started.

We’d hear ‘I Would Walk 500 Miles’, and ‘Small Town Girl’, three times a night minimum. Fortunately, by day 10 neither Mary or I could hear it anymore… that thing that humans have kicked in and tuned it out.  Like the people who live beside train tracks.

Mary and me.

We’re at a club, my editor gave me tickets and said, take the night off.

Thanks to Mary is why my Olympics was as great as it was. I went out there, without a place to stay (no really – there was talk at my newspaper of some empty moved-out apartment, I had a towel with me, just figured I’d wing it all).

Mary offered her couch, I crashed onto it three days into the Games, then never left.

I thanked her by leaving a bunch of swag hidden around her house, including a cowbell in her freezer. Which she recently moved to her freezer … 5 provinces away, see it here.

I had this great morning routine going by the end… wake up, walk down to my coffee spot, pick up a paper along the way, read my article and eat a gingersnap cookie, back home and get online, and start working.

I was there representing Canoe.ca and, in addition to producing videos, I wrote for Vancouver 24 Hours.  Read them all here.  Third largest newspaper in BC!

“Social Keri”; I had not input there.

That backpack, my mobile studio – 22 pounds.

I was the only person at the paper, left to her own devices, not tasked with a story. Instead, I was expected to chase down and produce my own. Proud of that.

I met Carol Huynh on the Alberta Train. She’s our first ever Gold Medalist for Women’s Wrestling (2008).  Click here for her podium moment when our anthem plays, very cute.

I don’t remember this photo being taken… at this point, I’ve been awake for 36 hours, filmed and produced two videos, and was en route to film a third.

This is Exploring Whistler Village, shot that day, I really like this episode.

I squished so much into three weeks, I didn’t stop.

There’s so many stories and behind-the-scenes stuff I could tell you, cue up another video series.

I’ll leave you with this: the spirit I went into this all with.

This was taken right downtown, after the men won a hockey game.

And here’s me, taken minutes after the above (my camera is on a garbage can).

It’s from this episode, What Happened After Our Hockey Win

GO CANADA GO!

 

 

 

Real Olympic Gold Medals

It’s Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, the Canadian Olympic Gold winning ice dancers, hi guys! Congratulations on killing it at the games and more recently, the Worlds.

They were really nice, and even better looking in person.

Their winning performance:

Body Shop was also nice to host this, thank you!  They launched a new product, “Body Butter Duos” and sent me home with some, the Sweet Pea being my favourite.

One side for normal skin, the other for very dry, smells good and light, like, not too perfumey, which is good because I am so sensitive to smells.  90% of the time I hold my breath when I open someone’s fridge.

This is the second time I’ve been lucky enough to hold a Gold, remember when I was in Whistler last year and found snowboarder Maelle Ricker?

Exploring Whistler Village

I’ve been editing the last Canadian Explorer episode and came across the below episode.

My time at the Olympics was all in fast forward, especially this day.

I filmed three videos, all on zero sleep (Irish House, the party place of the Games and directly across the street from my Vancouver home.  I never again want to hear “I will walk 500 miles”).

I blogged, made videos, posted them, and never really looked back until now.  I quite like this video.

Note: I had to embed it from the Sun Media site because…. omg this is bad… it’s not uploaded to my own YouTube channel.  So bad.

I blogged recently about the mess that is my online everything.  I’ll clean it up, soon soon.

And now, Exploring Whistler Village:

A Gold Medal!  YES Maelle Ricker.

Ep #79 – Our Big Hockey Gold Win

Remember when we CRUSHED IT at the Van2010 Olympics this year??

Here’s the streets of Vancouver after our 14th world-record Gold Medal hockey win.

GO CANADA GO!

The guy at the end, love him, “here we gooooooo!”.

Thanks again to Canada Goose for outfitting me for the Games, they saved me because I was in real danger of looking like a raggamuffin.

If you’re going to be out playing street hockey on Saturday, register your team with them (which enters you to maybe win a prize pack) and join in their attempt to have the most recorded street hockey games day.  Good luck guys!