Our spring break in Hawaii

Hanauma Bay

Elle was having so much fun feeding the fish,
1 small piece at a time

until she ran out, then she sadly exclaimed
"they are sooooo hungry"

Teagie knows how to kick back...

Saphire the turtle is too tired to make her 1,000 mile trek

to French Polynesian to lay her eggs this year.

The luau is amazing at the Polynesian Cultural Center

We Love our Uncle Benson

and WOW can he dance!

look at that foot work

Fluffy in his kilt

This is Fluffy, he works for VANOC.

Previously the company had casual friday, and Fluffy enjoyed wearing shorts,

but under new management,

casual friday was considered unprofessional and cancelled.

Fluffy was very disappointed and asked (pointing to a co-worker)

"Is it alright to wear a skirt on Fridays?

The answer was yes, and so was born "Kilt Friday".

He added the green tights for the olympic, outdoor, cold venue.

This is another fluffy friend. Look at those sweet treats in the store.... yum

my work crew team members

this is the anti-doping vehicle,
I drove down the hill with the athletes that were randomly picked for drug tests.

after the USA womens bobsled competition
the sleds are taken back to the storage trailers
and given some TLC.
Evidently the US has the best built bobsleds in the world.


A Brazilian news team caught me for an interview.
Como vi voce?

This Slovakian theatre team posing as the Olympic rings

and imitating the ski jump, they were uniquely funny

An alp horn from Switzerland posing with Miss whistler

(that is the gondola on their heads and their skirts are the hills and ski runs)

Cheese fondue anyone?

enough with the pins already

some people might be tired of the pin trading
(for me collecting) but enough is never enough
45 (non duplicates) and counting

Below is Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong, the only team member of the Ghana ski team, he started out working 6 years as a receptionist at a local indoor ski amusement center in his home town, It took about 10 seconds to make it down the man-made snow slope.
He eventually graduated to real snow and a real slope and now he is representing a charity organization that benefits the endangered snow leopard.
I got his autograph and then he did a news broadcast in which the interviewer said,
"Is it ok to wish you good luck at not coming in last place"
after the interview they ask the audience who they thought deserved a t-shirt,
I raised my hands and shouted, "I'm a volunteer all the way from California" .
The broadcast interviewer then polled the audience
"How many think this American deserves this T-shirt after Canada was defeated
in last night's hockey game against the US?"
He gave me the shirt anyway, despite the thunderous BOOOOOOO's.

He signed the hat "The snow leopard"

this is a lucky shot, most of my attempts are of the ice

it is an ordeal just carrying in the bobsleds

this is the 2 women bobsled team from Japan, they may be slow
(they don't even take a running start) but the sled is a work of art

Bob asked me to get some "behind the scenes shots",
this one is how they heat the tents

the garbage and recycling bins are bear proof
(don't worry they are hibernating now)

members of the Cree 1st nation tribe

Roger Tsang wore that sweater skiing in 1984

Some of the crew who have told me "where to go".
Rob (seated in front) is from Australia.
Do you see how we are squinting,
we brought the table outside to have lunch,
we usually have lunch and dinner in this heated tent.

the beautiful view from our condo