Olympics, Chinese New Years, Valentines day...Sunday was full! A beautiful day, we wandered down to Chinatown to see the New Years parade and on the way found this incredibly long line-up to get inside the Bay department store. Granted it is the "official Olympic boutique". There is the International House pavilion on the top floor - hopefully that's what they were lined up to see.
One in four Vancouverites is Chinese so this New Years is significant. Add a few hundred thousand Olympic tourists and it gets very busy. We thought the fireworks last night were for Chinese new years but it turns out just some of them were - others will be every night.
We went to Switzerland House on Granville Island because there was rumor of good chocolate and raclette (similar to cheese fondu except you put the melted cheese on things rather than dipping the thing into the cheese). And there was, but not much else except the Swiss National Broadcast centre, some very friendly Swiss German greeters, and lots and lots of people.
And the final Axel of our Quadruple - Lewis and I celebrating 16 years since our first date. To celebrate we saw a modern dance by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet - part of the Cultural Olympiad - a series of 600 cultural events during the Olympics.
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