So on Thursday afternoon after doing some work from home I hopped a couple buses out to Richmond to the O Zone.
It claims to be the largest free celebration area for the Olympics. They do have a lot of room in front of the stage and the Holland Heineken house is quite large but the line up is also very long for that.
I filled out a draw for 2 tickets to the closing ceremonies but found out later that night that I lost. Then I waited in this line to get into the BC Lottery Corporation tent. It moved pretty fast but then there wasn't much time spent inside it.
Inside I chose to try my hand at a simulation of the biathalon. I had to put on little bootys and slide back and forth on a board to simulate the cross country skiing and then there was a short amount of shooting at the screen targets. When I left the place they gave me a scratch ticket but I lost at that too.
After the BCLC tent I went back to the field where a country band was playing on the stage, but more people were watching the first period of the Canada-Switzerland hockey game on the screen beside it. Since the Canada Line is so convenient to get to Vancouver I decided to go catch it at the end of the first period.
I watched the third period, overtime and the shoot out of the game in Robson Square with a whole bunch of crazy fans including Gordon, Clarisse and Murray. The game was intense with Canada winning it in the shootout and the crowd breaking out into singing Oh Canada after the win.
Shortly after that I took the Canada Line right back to the O Zone for the Our Lady Peace concert. I grabbed a quick bite at the mall and then got fairly close to the stage just as the Arkells began playing. Some of there songs were pretty good. The band is from Hamilton. The crowd became quite pushy leading up to Our Lady Peace. Since the concert was free there were some kids on their parent's shoulders. There was also a lady with a stroller squished into the crowd who was trying to stop people from pushing.
While Our Lady Peace was setting up they replayed the hockey shootout on the big screens. This is just before Sidney Crosby won it for Canada.
Our Lady Peace put on an awesome show only playing a couple songs I didn't know. A lot of people were just there to have fun in the crowd. I had a couple people crowd surf over me and a bunch of balls were bouncing around on top of the crowd.
At one point the lead singer Raine climbed up the side of the stage cover.
There was no encore at the end of the show as the announcer said that the city of Richmond had a curfew on the place.
It took me a bloody long time to get out of Richmond mostly because I was waiting at a bus stop that apparently the bus had been rerouted around. Across the street from the O Zone there was a ferries wheel and the outline of Olympics rings and a maple leaf on a field behind a fence.
So on Thursday afternoon after doing some work from home I hopped a couple buses out to Richmond to the O Zone.
It claims to be the largest free celebration area for the Olympics. They do have a lot of room in front of the stage and the Holland Heineken house is quite large but the line up is also very long for that.
I filled out a draw for 2 tickets to the closing ceremonies but found out later that night that I lost. Then I waited in this line to get into the BC Lottery Corporation tent. It moved pretty fast but then there wasn't much time spent inside it.
Inside I chose to try my hand at a simulation of the biathalon. I had to put on little bootys and slide back and forth on a board to simulate the cross country skiing and then there was a short amount of shooting at the screen targets. When I left the place they gave me a scratch ticket but I lost at that too.
After the BCLC tent I went back to the field where a country band was playing on the stage, but more people were watching the first period of the Canada-Switzerland hockey game on the screen beside it. Since the Canada Line is so convenient to get to Vancouver I decided to go catch it at the end of the first period.
I watched the third period, overtime and the shoot out of the game in Robson Square with a whole bunch of crazy fans including Gordon, Clarisse and Murray. The game was intense with Canada winning it in the shootout and the crowd breaking out into singing Oh Canada after the win.
Shortly after that I took the Canada Line right back to the O Zone for the Our Lady Peace concert. I grabbed a quick bite at the mall and then got fairly close to the stage just as the Arkells began playing. Some of there songs were pretty good. The band is from Hamilton. The crowd became quite pushy leading up to Our Lady Peace. Since the concert was free there were some kids on their parent's shoulders. There was also a lady with a stroller squished into the crowd who was trying to stop people from pushing.
While Our Lady Peace was setting up they replayed the hockey shootout on the big screens. This is just before Sidney Crosby won it for Canada.
Our Lady Peace put on an awesome show only playing a couple songs I didn't know. A lot of people were just there to have fun in the crowd. I had a couple people crowd surf over me and a bunch of balls were bouncing around on top of the crowd.
At one point the lead singer Raine climbed up the side of the stage cover.
There was no encore at the end of the show as the announcer said that the city of Richmond had a curfew on the place.
It took me a bloody long time to get out of Richmond mostly because I was waiting at a bus stop that apparently the bus had been rerouted around. Across the street from the O Zone there was a ferries wheel and the outline of Olympics rings and a maple leaf on a field behind a fence.
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