Torino Olympics

Long time no post. I have been very busy with work and all but I did manage to go to the Olympics in Torino!! We went on Feb 19th, and we had tickets to see the Women's 1000M Speed Skating finals. Unfortunately USA placed 10th but it was still fun! The place was mobbed and about 50% of the audience was from the Netherlands (probably because they were heavliy favored to win!). I can't remember the last time I saw this much orange as it is the national color. Whenever they would announce someone from the Netherlands the crowd roared and would knock you back to your seat if you were standing. So the results were 1) Netherlands 2) Canada 3) Germany.

Torino is a very cool city too, very small and quaint. Unfortunately it was raining and then it began to snow pretty bad and it was FREEZING but the Olympic experience will never be forgotten. It was pretty amazing to see all these people from different nations all supporting the athletes. Later after the game we went to the Olympic Medals Stage and got as close as we could to the stage. It turns out that Whitney Houston was performing live that night, we only stayed for the first couple of songs...she was actually sounding very unspectacular mostly talking through the songs and not really singing and we were really cold and tired so we headed back to Milano. I am definitely going to pencil in Vancouver for 2010!! I think it would be cool to watch the outdoor events like snowboarding and slalom.