About that Curling

So, I'm going to carry on talking about the curling and the Olympics, and I'm going to act as if you've not been to a curling event so I can continue to astound you with surprising facts about Vancouver's Olympic curling events.

I still don't know what the ACTUAL proper words for most of curling are, bear with me. Curling halls are, well, they're multitaskers. There's four whole lanes in a curling... alley? Like a bowling alley? The seating is a little different - its stadium seating so everyone can see, plus there's seating on 3 sides, and the food is much the same as you might find in a bowling alley (plus beer) but I'm certain the food and beer at the Olympics is a tad more expensive (*cough*SIX DOLLAR HOT DOG*cough*)... What the hell was I talking about?

Oh! Right! There's 4 lanes, and there's always someone throwing a rock on ice somewhere. There's always something to watch or some team to pay attention to while another team is talking or scoring or losing HORRIBLY and being boring - see the right-most lane where the Swedes are taking a break.

Down the Lanes


Now, understand, in Canada, curling's pretty big, despite it having been invented in Scotland. So the Great Britain team, it should be good. I know, I know, there were a ton of Scottish immigrants to Canada, but they realllllly like their curling here. We somehow managed to get tickets to the one match that the Canadians weren't playing - which was perfectly fine by us because we DID get to see the USA v GBR game and since my house is made up of people from those two places? It was a good time to go. Holy bejaysus, tangent.

ANYWAYS, look, they get into the curling. They get so into it, that they do the wave. SEVERAL TIMES.

On the Right


Going into the event, I was presuming, despite expecting the USA teams in all other events to be stupendous, that I'd watch my country's team hand the Great Britain team an easy win. That's not at all what happened. Can you see what happened? Can you see that??

Overtime Win


That's right! WE WON! I don't really know, but I think that was like one of two games the USA won. But there were flag wavers and USA chanters in the crowd, albeit not many of them. They sure did outnumber and outshout the GBR fans though.

Old Glory and Union Jack


So, you know, it's been all, "USA! USA!" in my house ever since. AND RIGHTFULLY SO!