I honestly feel very sorry for any Olympic protesters today. Downtown Vancouver is swarming with people and the atmosphere is very electric. Art exhibits line the rained soaked streets and businesses are flying flags and Olympic symbology in blatant disregard of the IOC IP police. People are lined up to zip-line across Robson street to the Art gallery. But the coolest thing downtown is the restored Robson Center outdoor ice rink.
To put it into words I’d describe the atmosphere here today as euphoric patriotism. Right now I’m sitting in the lobby of Hotel Vancouver and its a people watchers paradise. I even just assisted two nice ladies with impaired vision find the washrooms. Clearly lost they asked me “Is this a mall?”.
“No this is the Hotel Vancouver and yes those are shops.” Actually LV, Omega and Guchi give the lobby a cruise ship kind of feel. Speaking of atmosphere, I wonder how long the hovering security guards and under cover secret service will let me sit here.
Well back to the show. P
