You just can’t help but get into the groove of the Olympic Flame traveling through Canada… This week the flame is in Toronto, it arrived last night through much fanfare and early this morning it departed again to light up our streets…

We tried to wait for it last night at DR’s dad place but some idiots decided that a demonstration a few block ahead of where we were waiting was much needed and got into an altercation with the police, arrests were made and the flame was delayed by quite some time. Our feet were frozen so we left and watched it from the 22nd floor balcony instead… still it was cool as we knew the flame was going to be paraded right in front of our apartment the morning after…

So this morning, after DR’s run, we showered and got dressed and went to get a hot drink at Starbucks and planted ourselves in front of our place to await the flame… I was expecting a truck of some sort, a runner with a lit flame and some police escort… Huh!!! no… This was an event.

First there were 4 police cruisers with their lights on stopping at all intersections in the area to stop the traffic, then this very cute girl came running at us and handed us some really cool Coke cans in the shape of old Coke bottles, then the Coca Cola truck drove by with some hip hop music blaring and a ton of very good looking young adults cheering on it, no ugly people applied for the job I guess. This was followed by Royal Bank Of Canada float, again with some really good looking people cheering and telling us exactly what corner the torch barer was at… Fun. This parade was very loud and definitely announcing a cool event.. and there I was worried that I’d sleep through it…

Finally, the flame was in sight, there was a relay just in front of us and the new runner was on her way… We cheered on Nancy as she went by and with that it was over…

As corny as it seems, the whole thing was uber cool… It really felt like a once in a lifetime thing to do… Not sure if I’ll ever get the chance to see the Olympic flame “live” again… and certainly never on my street.

Unfortunately, I am a really bad photographer at 7am…

DR gleefully awaiting the Flame

Nancy being lit up

Blurry Nancy running by…

The End.

Actually not quite the end… DR has a fun video on his blog… Enjoy it!

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