This week has been a very long and stressful week. I received some very scary news last weekend; my roommate in Vancouver had a heart attack late last Saturday night when I was in Kelowna. After 7 days in the hospital (3 days in intensive care) and surgery to have a pacemaker put in, she is doing well and is expected to make a full recovery. She's hoping to be home in the next couple of days.
I spent many nights in the hospital this week with my roommate and her family, and wasn't in a mood to keep up with the blog. But now that she's doing well, I can breathe a sigh of relief and update my blog.
Last weekend I went to Kelowna to watch some of my (former) gymnastics teammates (and best friends) compete at a gym meet, the Ogopogo Invitational. Kelowna is about a 5 hour drive East of Vancouver, however I didn't drive. I had the option of taking the 13.5 hour, overnight greyhound bus ride up but since it didn't sound very appealing, I opted to fly :)
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It was SO nice seeing some of my former gym coaches and all the people I called my family when I did gym (and still call them my family today). We were able to catch the last bit of the hockey game back at the hotel before heading out to dinner. After the 3rd period the score was tied 2-2 and we made it back to the hotel right before overtime started. We watched 11 seconds of the game - the 11 seconds of overtime. Canucks didn't wait long before scoring. It was super exciting!
These are all the girls and coaches from my gym club in Toronto. The picture was taken outside of The Keg, where we went to eat dinner after the competition.
And of course the coaches covered us in silly string after our group picture :P
Here's Michelle, Sarah, Alison, Me and Marlee at The Keg :)
Kelowna was a lot of fun. It's very small - there's like one major road down the entire city. It's kinda funny. And it was HOT that weekend!!!
The Canucks had a pretty brutal game 3 and 4 in Boston. I don't even want to mention the score of each of those games. I actually didn't see either game - both nights I was at the hospital with my roommate. However, I watched game 5 with some friends on Friday night, and it ended much better. VANCOUVER WON 1-0. We're now up 3-2 in the series. One more win for the Stanley Cup!! It'll be tough though - next game is in Boston. However we have two chances to win, and if it goes to game 7 it'll be back in Vancouver.
The city went absolutely bonkers when they won on Friday. I was at a friend's house watching the game and on my way downtown people were cheering and honking their horns. Even hours after the game finished, people were celebrating and going nuts as though they had JUST won! Everyone broke out into singing the national anthem on the skytrain... and crowds were chanting "we want the cup" and "go canucks go"
This is at Granville Skytrain station
Granville Street (downtown Vancouver) was PACKED with people for about 12 blocks, at least. This is near Granville Street and Robson Street (right downtown).
Everybody was as happy as ever. I must have gotten 50 high 5's from a bunch of random strangers.
The pressure's on. The next game is Monday night, and will be played in Boston. It's a big one. It could be THE one. It might be the last one, I hope it is. Canucks have a chance of bringing home the Stanley Cup on Monday. They've gotta play at their best though. I'll be downtown cheering as hard as I can.
Today (Saturday) I spent the day at the beach with Edwina, David, Matt and Lisa.
We went to Jericho Spanish Banks and played volleyball for a good long while, as well as worked on our tans :P I'm so white - I could really use some more sun! The water was FREEZING cold, so after volleyball we dipped out feet in the water and ate pineapple and apples while sitting on the rocks.
It's been a long week, but things are much better now than they were at the beginning of the week. My roommate's doing well and should be home soon which will be great.
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