Not so ordinary

When I woke up on Wednesday, I figured that I had a regular ol' day ahead of me...boy, was I ever wrong!! Everything around the village is really starting to pick up and it's getting to crunch time. The moment I arrived into the building, one of the guys I work with said that Michael Smith is on site and had JUST been in the building for a meeting on the couches where we usually sit! I had missed him but it certainly didn't stop me from going directly to the spot he was sitting and sit there! Woo! And that was just the beginning...!

The next surprise was a cute one...plays on the ol' heart strings! First of all, if I see any video about the upcoming Olympics with a tonne of Canada hype and Vancouver/Whistler specific photos and memories of the previous great moments of the Olympics...I weep. It's that simple. There's one video in particular (you can find these on vancouver2010.com) that I've be

en getting better at making it through but then they show the women's hockey team win and then glimpses of prideful Canadians and I lose it! Thankfully a new friend that I work with here is exactly the same so by the end of these videos, we're a mess!! Now that you're caught up on some background that has no connection to this next little story...........

We're at the process of delivering the right amount of linens and soap and whatever else to the rooms for them to be set up and there were new boxes in our storage units this week full of cards. And not just any old card...these are hand

-drawn welcome cards made by elementary kids from around Canada that will be placed beside each athletes bed! They are so adorable! And quite a nice touch, I might add! Yay Canada!

And I can't stop there!

As I've mentioned before, we're getting ready for what we call 'the sweep'...where the army etc. come in and check everything! So before that happens and we're in total lockdown where we're the only ones allowed onsite there are tours galore! Wednesday was media day...the only day that the media was allowed on site! Media from all over the world were here on a tour and if you saw Global news last night you would've seen it all (well, all that we were prepared to show people!). This was where the Village GM had to keep Michael Smith in the back of the kitchen so the media could only see the McDonald's in the dining hall and not know that a pro chef is in the back of the real kitchen! Anyway...

Next on the list of excitement was when we discovered that the Olympic Rings for the village had arrived!!! And they postponed their placement until after our Operational meeting so we could all go and get our picture taken with it! I mean, how COOL is that?!?!?! I totally touched them (no big deal)...and now they're on the first level roof of one of the buildings. They're lime green...weird, I know. But still cool!

And THEN we discovered where team Canada is staying so we've been doing a little snooping. They have a gigantic moose (red and white with Team Canada tattoos!) in their garage and they're going to set up hockey nets to play road hockey!! How sweet is that??!!! I love it!

Next up was the original plan for the day which was to play darts at night. Clearly, being a part of the housekeeping team (and seeing as there were hundreds of extra toilet brushes ordered) we all get one and are going to bring them everywhere we go! So, naturally, we played darts and brought along our torches!

I'm off to our managers hockey game and well, yes...the torches are coming there too! If she gets a hat-trick, we're throwing them over the glass!! Woo!