I went off to find a place to get some food and saw this street performer. He balanced himself up here well putting his body through a tennis racket. It was ridiculous. After grabbing some food I met back up with Gordon and we stood in line.The security people tried to convince us there was no way we were going to get into the screen area to watch the game because who would leave the in the middle? In fact when we were first walking towards the line a guy was telling us that hockey wasn't even going to be played there. What a liar! Gordon tried to convince them to get the fire marshal so he could convince the marshal that they should put the game on the other screen too so more people could watch it.
While waiting in the line Gordon was interviewed twice by people with big video cameras. The first guy was from somewhere in Europe by the sound of this accent. The second interviewer was a French lady who was looking for someone who spoke French but ended up settling on Gordon. Having an afro really seems to attract reporters.
Shortly after the first intermission they let us in after some people left including Gordon's aunt and uncle. It was funny how security had been telling us the whole time we wouldn't be getting in. We started watching at the back and I could see just fine except after Canada scored because everyone leaped up in front of me!
It was awesome watching with a big crowd of excited fans.
At the second intermission we moved up to sit with a guy Gordon knew from watching the last couple Canada men's hockey games there. Here he is with some other fans trying to get everyone to make even more noise! The game was quite intense especially the last couple minutes where Canada had so many shots on net but didn't managed to put one in. It was ridiculous.Hopefully they do better against Russia on Wednesday. Unfortunately they're now lined up to play a lot of tricky games while the US can probably breeze through to the finals. US plays Switzerland who they just beat last week in their first game.
After the game we started wandering to find a place to eat but not before Gordon had a third interview, one in which I was included this time. The lady said that people in Europe had expected riots in the streets here if we lost the game yet there weren't any. Also she asked us how we were feeling about the loss. What kind of question is that?
So after eating some Subway and having random conversations in the Subway with some teens waiting to use the washroom we hopped the skytrain back to Surrey.
In Surrey we went over to Holland park and checked out the SIAT tent with the weBlimp thing before getting in a large lineup. The lineup was to get into the tent to see 54-40 and the lady at the gate to the park had said the line was 45 minutes long. She was right and we missed the first few songs BUT it also meant the security people by the line who were saying we wouldn't get in at all were very wrong....again. I don't know what it is with security people and just wanting people to not even get in line.
This was the view of 54-40 that you could see from our spot in the line IF there was no tent wall in the way. I thought it might be as close as we got. I mean, how could security people lie twice in one day?
Inside it was a really awesome show. They really got the crowd into it with everyone shouting "Go Canada Go!" for a while, yet it wasn't as packed as the previous concerts. You had room to breathe.
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