Happy Ground Hog Day! I heard that Balzac Billy saw his shadow so there will be another 6 weeks of winter in Alberta. I feel so bad that I am basking in these great plus 10 temperatures with no snow to shovel. True it is raining and gray, but the sun did peak through and it only rained in the morning. We are still keeping out fingers crossed that there will be some snow up at Cypress, as they are now trucking it in from Manning Park which is about 3 hours to the east of here. It is one of the hottest topics every morning, and when we heard that last night they got 5 cm there was great joy in Mudville.
Today was my 6th shift so I received my 2nd volunteer gift today, I had a choice between as stuffed Quatchi or Miga. I chose Quatchi (the Sasquatch) as he seems to be the most popular with the accreditation crew and he is just so cute.
There was an article in the Province newspaper today about the thousands of pin traders that will be hitting town in the next few days. Pin trading is a big thing at the Olympics and everyone seems to be getting into the swing of things. I have several and even got one from a German Broadcasting cameraman just for helping him with validating his card. I even ran into the two guys that were on the front page of the paper and they wanted to trade for my Team 2010 pin that I got as a volunteer prize on day 3. I told them that I was keeping it but I that I was still a raw rookie when it comes to pin trading and I might be willing to trade some of my other pins down the road. Liz was given a Japanese Broadcasting pin that I gather is one that is very hard to get. We are still waiting to get one of the NBC pins so hopefully when we get more through the tent someone will have some.
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