I am listening to what seems like a Christmas album version of the Canadian national anthem, and wondering exactly why this opening ceremony had to start so darn late. We kept the kids up for a while to watch the start of the Olympics, but all they got to see was a lot of quick-cutting sports footage (and some beautiful landscape shots in high def). It was fun to watch Muriel pretend to be snowboarding, to be sure. And they were predictably impressed by the ski jumping and the figure skating. But our kids love their sleep, and they keep to a schedule pretty rigorously, so it was hard not to feel a little bad when it was an hour past bedtime and their eyelids got all doubled and droopy. No opening ceremony after all.
Now they are fast asleep, and so is Jim, naturally, so it's just me and Bob Costas. Tonight, Jim hung the kitchen with paper lanterns for Chinese New Year, and also brought home a really amazing amount of flowers, so the kitchen is the perfect storm of February holiday decorations. I'll get some pictures of that tomorrow. I have a little more sewing to do on the girls' wacky little Valentine's presents, and then it's off to bed.
Wow, Macedonia's "real" name is the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. So educational, this parade of nations!
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I had the same thought about the opening ceremony's rendition of O Canada: This sounds like a Christmas carol!
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