The Olympics!!! I don't know if either of you checked out the opening ceremonies on tv. I did not until I got home from seeing Valentine's Day (which was so-so) and saw that everyone (okay, not everyone) was tweeting about it. John Green said something about satanic flames and how Canada had looked at life from both sides now. I was intrigued. On went the television.
We watched a replay of it from about the middle to the end and were thoroughly entertained. The satanic flames were everything I expected. Amazing. And partially lame. I guess that's in the description. The cauldron malfunction was quite amusing.
Then I watched women's hockey yesterday and was quite embarrassed to see Canada kick Slovakia in the face. Not even in the butt, like a normal kicking. No, Canada had to pound the poor Slovakians* in the face, with a skate laden foot. I believe the final score was 18-0. It's just sad. I'm sorry, Slovakia, please don't quit hockey because of this.
***There was a large intermission between the writing of these two sections. Take note.***
Canada won a gold medal. I have seen the winning mogul run** about fifteen times. I think I know what I will be dreaming about tonight and I will reveal to you that it is Alexandre Bilodeau and his mad skiing skillz. In case you didn't know (I'm writing this with sarcasm in my inner voice because I have heard this fact so many times on the news), this is the first gold medal Canada has won on Canadian soil. No gold medals were won for Canada at either the Calgary or Montreal Olympics. History was made today.
I think this is kind of exciting. Seeing this guy awarded his bouquet*** was the second most amazing part (the most amazing part, of course, was seeing his body rotate three times in the air while flipping his feet over his head). Happiness practically radiated off him. The third most amazing part was when he had just finished the run, he fell after nearly crashing into a wall. The fourth most amazing part was seeing him stand on the podium for a photo op next to the Australian silver medal winner who's face said that all he wanted was to go to his hotel room and jump off the balcony. Or maybe just hit someone. He was not at all pleased with his result. Poor fellow. Maybe that wasn't amazing.
Then we watched pairs figure skating which was also awesome. I can't really explain the feeling you get from watching figure skating but I like it. Canada did not rank very high there but the medal event is happening tomorrow. One of the couples danced to that completely epic song from the Lord of the Rings 2 trailer. Epicness.
I'll stop rambling about the Olympics because it probably doesn't mean that much to anyone but me. Seriously though, I don't know if I'm only interested because it's happening here, but I feel very invested.
*Who, in case you're interested (yes, I know you're not, I'm telling you anyway) are at the Olympics for the first time. They have never before had their women's hockey team play an Olympic game and were rewarded with a Canadian face kicking. *facepalm*
**Hands up if you have never heard of moguls until very recently. *raises hand*
***He gets the actual medal tomorrow night, I believe.
1 comment:
I haven't watched the Olympics at all, actually. :O I feel like this is a violation of many different laws, but I've never consistently watched them.
Regardless, congratulations to Canada! <3
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