Friday, February 12, 2010

This is the view from my usual parking spot at work.  I thought that a shot of a snow covered Pike's Peak would be fitting since the Olympics kick off today.  This year the Winter Games are being hosted by the city of Vancouver, Canada.  Canada is the second largest country in the world (Russia is the largest) but it only has a tenth of the population of the United States.  90% of all Canadians live within 100 miles of the United States border.  There are more people that live in the state of California than live in the entire country of Canada.  The country was named purely by chance as letters of the alphabet were put in a hat and pulled out.  They pulled the first letter and announced "C" ay "N" ay "D" ay.  Just kidding.  But they do have great bacon!  Stacie and I love to watch ski jumping, figure skating, moguls, and bobsled.  If you could participate in any Winter Games event, what would it be?

4 comments:

  1. What a terrific picture, thanks for sharing !

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  2. If I could and "if" is the big word here, it would be the ski jumping. I think it would be so fun and amazing to be able to fly in the air like they do. I know this is just a fantasy so I will have to settle on watching and just have to picture and experiene the process of my big leap in my own mind.

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  3. haha i like your canada joke. you had me going for a second.

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  4. I would totally go for couples figure skating! It's so beautiful!

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