Below are a few pictures of the athlete village. It's really cool how all of the countries decorate their buildings. It's very festive and patriotic.
The Swedes
My favorite...The Aussie's! I thought this was so funny. VANOC wants them to take it down but I like it.
Team USA!! We really need to work on our decorations. Sweden wraps their pillar, The Aussies hang the biggest banner ever and we get a few flags up...pssh. Although, if we were to decorate like those other countries everyone would probably think we were trying to showboat or that we were being jerks. Oh well, scarifies we make to be #1. Take that!Today we produced the first day of welcome ceremonies at the athlete village. Team Lithuania. They had 5 people total (the US has 130), mainly cross country and biathlon skiers. This picture is from Saturday when we were setting up the control room behind the stage.
The below pictures are from today before we greeted the large congregation of Team Lithuania. While we were waiting for the team Jeff and I were importing files from DVD's into the playback system. Jeff looked at the gold DVD and said it looked like a medal. I then took off my credential and used the lanyard to hold the "medal" around my neck. Naturally I won the gold...Jeff took home the silver. They just need to make bronze DVD's and we would have the complete DVD nerd podium set!
Proud champions of the production Olympics! Jeff then mentioned that I looked more like Flavor Flav than a gold medalists. I wanted to tell him that no one remembers second place but I couldn't bring myself to ruin his Olympic spirit!
The last picture of the day is of me and Mr. Moose. Mr. Moose stands out front of the Team Canada building. I'm not sure what to name him so I will take suggestions. I'm also not sure why he is there or what the significance is. All I know is that someone must have had way too many Molson Canadians and said "hey, a candy-cane Moose would go perfect here eh!"
Mr. Moose and I signing off for the night! Talk soon!
Very cool. Looks like a lot of fun. One complaint though, I see that you are outside wearing jeans and a long sleeve shirt. Where is the huge snow parka, ear muffs, gloves....its called "winter" olympics remember?
ReplyDeleteLove the Moose. It sounds like snow is on the way and your moose may be covered in snow, but then he won't look any different. Those Canadian are strange, eh! Oops, their family so I had better watch it.
ReplyDeleteYears ago there was a cartoon Boris, Natasha and Bullwinkle the moose. So I think Bullwinkle is a cool name or Rupert. Love Mom
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