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Vancouver Looks Back

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on March 5, 2010 11:25 PM

Previously, TTLA's Vancouver Expat Bureau Chief, Amy Pederson, wrote this dispatch prior to the opening of the Winter Olympics.

Now that the games have concluded, Pederson checked in via Facebook with other Vancouver natives for their final take on the big happening. Here's a sampling of the replies:

  • "Canada vs. USA gold medal game....McDonalds is packed with people watching it on their one flat screen TV. A flat screen.....in McDonalds...weird."

  • "Olympics? When? Where?"

  • "I got mobbed in a street party with my 85-year-old grandmother. She thought it was groovy."

  • "I couldn't park."

  • "Less bombings / more brainwashing than expected."

  • "You wouldn't have recognized the city. Downtown was a 24hr nut house. No one seemed to be working. Warm fuzzy waves of nationalism. I stand behind the cultural significance of the golden goal. Awesome drunk. Wary of the hangover."

Photo Credit: The image accompanying this post was taken by Flickr user iwona_Kellie. It was used under Creative Commons license.

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