On Tuesday the Olympic Flame arrived in South Delta. It went right past my daughter's house so we headed down to watch the excitement. I did take video with my new camera. Unfortunately I didn't know I couldn't film holding the camera sideways so to watch the video everyone would have to tip their heads to the left *LOL* So I still captured these photos from the film... the first is the Olympic Flame passing by and, luckily, we were standing on the corner where the flame switched from one runner to another so I got that too.
This is a bit shaky but I was holding the camera the right way when the trucks leading the runner passed by. You can hear the excitement. I don't know how to post a video on here but you can see it on You Tube here:
Olympic Torch Parade
Over the next couple of weeks we're hoping to take the sky train into Vancovuer to see the various venues put on by the different countries. We're paying for all this in our taxes.. if we can't afford tickets to events we may as well enjoy the rest of the excitment.
5 comments:
What an exciting time. I do hope you'll take pictures and post them of the different venues. I can't wait for the opening ceremonies.
Some time ago the flame went through our city, the crowds were unbelievable, so was not able to see much. I am looking forward to the opening ceremonies tomorrow.
Would love to see photos of the venues to get to see.
Patricia
That is really great that the torch went by so close to you! I will go check out the video now... :o)
That is a once in a lift time thing there. Glad you had your camera. I would go and see all I could see too.
how exciting Shirley, wish I was there. Hiopefully you will look at our iceskaters . Tomorrow ,Saturday, our most famous iceskater Sven Kramer is skating the 5000 meters. WE all hope for the best of course. he is the world champion after all. He will skate more distances in the next weeks. We have mostly iceskaters in the olympics, some are real good. We will keep our fingers crossed.
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