Vancouver has said YES to the 2010 Olympic bid! Hopefully I'll still be (or be back to) living here to take advantage of it, if we get chosen -- and hopefully global warming won't have reduced Whistler to a tropical island resort at that point too, I suppose. It's perhaps apt that the last Winter Games concluded one year less a day ago (Sunday, February 24, 2002):
The closing ceremonies from Salt Lake City, which I missed due to Japanese food and something entirely, and wonderfully, unexpected.

The closing ceremonies from Salt Lake City, which I missed due to Japanese food and something entirely, and wonderfully, unexpected.
