US team uniforms very ordinary - what is special?
OMG - our team, we look like would-be RCMP
Have to think about this look.
Again, sorry for the consecutive posts. I am just so excited.
I must admit I got a bit sniffly there. I think it’s PMS. 
All the athletes with iPhones and cel phone cameras and digital cameras!
Nelly Furtado and Bryan Adams.
Nelly is from Victoria.
Nellie looked and sounded good.
If that was the “Vancouver” song - it was weak.
Still think our “Neighbours of the World” was the best so far.
That’s a BIG bear.
Okay, that was pretty neat. The aurora effect, the ice to water… it’s quite astounding, really, the visual extravagence.
I bet the people all “bundled up” must have been hot!
Who will carry the torch in?
I didn’t know Canada had a tradition of a devil fiddler–
Oh! Loreena McKennitt!
I think the NBC commentators said that the guy at the beginning was an athlete (snowboarder, maybe?). Didn’t catch his name.
I thought the parade of nations was really fun to watch - not as long as the summer one, so it’s easier to keep it from being tedious - but the music and dancing really gave it a festive feel. Teared up when the Georgians came in.
The pop music parts aren’t as impressive, though. (Nelly and Bryan were OK, but the rest - pretty ordinary). Maybe it’s just not my thing…
The fiddlers are excellent, though.
It’s a beautiful setting for the Olympics. Here’s hoping for successful Games.
Canadian Celtic Punk. I like it. I can’t keep still with this kind of music.
OK, our madman (Ashley) has arrived…Good but not very West Coast.
Oh yeah. We’ve got fiddlers that would make Johnny lose that golden fiddle. Not to the Devil, but to a Canadian fiddler.
Where the heck are my spoons? I should be playing along…
Not sure how the Joni Mitchell stuff fits.
Maybe random Canadiana.
What does a floating ragamuffin have to do with winter sports?
According to the broadcasters…they’re doing tributes to various parts of Canada…
Joni’s a prairie girl.
That fellow who got to “fly”–man, that looked like fun!
I wasn’t impressed with the aerial ballet to Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now.” That song is not (or should not be) light and etherial; it is meant to be a little more hard-edged. It is the song of a woman who has indeed seen the good and bad in life; and who sings about how things that seem pleasant and innocent can (and often do) have a darker side. That’s not the impression I got from the presentation.
Get that Gardentraveler - but was supposed to be about winter not a prairie fall.
W.O. Mitchell has better stuff about prairie winters to highlight.