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...and the very beautiful Vancouver and environs. I so want to go back for a proper visit.
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It is very beautiful here. I just hope that the weather clears so that everyone can see just *how* beautiful.
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Just watching tivo'd Opening Ceremony. Ice breaking up...orca whales...ORCA-BLOODY-WHALES! Freaking awesome!
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Really awesome! Seeing the orcas in the wild is even awsomer -- their tall dorsal fins breaking the water as a pod of 3 or eleventy swim by. If they breach completely out of the water it is moment that you'll never forget.
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Tattooed, punkish, kilt-wearing tappers and fiddlers...WTF!
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Fiddling and/or step/tap dancing is a tradition in many families all across Canada and they have their unique styles within certain regions. My father and all his brothers played the fiddle, as did his father. Two of my mother's brothers played the fiddle. There are 2 fiddles in our home and I hear someone practice on them daily.
A bit of artistic license and stage drama was added by the director in using the punk rockers with their tattoos. The tattoos were of indigenous people's design and the punk rock version may have originated with the final fiddle player,
Ashley MacIssac (one of our favourites), from his earlier days. They finished that segment with his
The Devil in the Kitchen.
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Joni Mitchell happening in an inevitable way I wish Bryan Adams hadn't. Beautiful.
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I enjoyed all of the songs showcasing our Canadian talent, with the exception of the rendition of our national anthem.
They represented the speed skaters and cross-country skiers if you watched the movement of their arms. This being an inside event, with no ice, I guess they had to go with wheels to represent both. The trails, I guess, were to show the speed, or induce flashbacks.
I take it by "bear poet" you mean
Shane Koyczan and his slam poetry
"We Are More".
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Oh, look, Channel 9 screwed up the start & finish times of the broadcast so that we got half an hour of rugby at the start and missed the last half hour of the ceremony. There's a shock. Jerks.
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Was that before or after kd lang's rendition of Hallelujah.
Welcome to the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Bienvenue!