Day 124 for me was day 5 of the Olympics. Again we spent the evening at Celebration Plaza where the RCMP Mounties found themselves to be the subject of everyone’s photographs. I sneaked a silhouette shot from behind.
Silhouette of Mountie and Olympic Cauldron
This is one of 100 McDonalds temporary staff at the Whistler Athlete’s Village – McDonalds is the official restaurant of the Olympics, which is as weird as Coca-Cola being the official drink. Hey ho!
One of 100 McDonalds temporary staff at the Whistler Athlete's Village
Day 3 in Whistler. So much going on. These are photos from Celebration Plaza – doubling as a medals plaza and amazing live music venue. Followed by a school drum band, then the new and improved Fire and Ice show:
A big day for Canada with it’s first Olympic Gold medal on home territory. Whistler Village was crazy busy and in a party mood. There’s so much going on right now it’s hard to pick just one photo to show. I thought the Olympic flavour Fire & Ice rings were cool, though.
More photos from day three here.
"Fire & Ice Remix" - our usual party with an Olympic twist
Four-time World Champion in four different alpine ski disciplines and two time silver medalist at the 2002 Winter Olympics, Bode Miller of the USA National Ski Team trains on Whistler Mountain. Due to poor weather the men’s downhill race due to take place today was rescheduled to Monday Feb 15th.
More training photos here.
Bode Miller training on Whistler Mountain
With the men’s downhill ski race postponed due to the weather some of the teams made use of the time training on Raven. Most of these guys were running the Super G course, although one of them just straight lined the whole thing. Bode Miller, currently part of the USA team was there flying team colours.
Local legends The Hairfarmers (Grateful Greg and Guitar Doug) play on stage before the Opening Ceremonies of the Vancouver2010 Olympic Winter Games. This well know local “Princess Steph” gives them some Canadian lovin’ on a wet afternoon.
More photos here.
Local "Princess Steph" gives the Hairfarmers some love!
Local legends The Hairfarmers (Grateful Greg and Guitar Doug) play on the mainstage at Whistler Live! Part of the on-going Olympic Winter Games celebrations.
This is the covered bridge over the Fitzsimmons Creek in Whistler. I’m not sure if the new lights are due to the Olympics or not, but they look pretty cool anyway.
A somewhat funkified photo of the Covered Bridge over the Fitzsimmons Creek
A day of skiing. An afternoon of drinking. And this is the result:
Robbie with mad, drunken, apres hair!
