Small taste of the celebrations on the streets of Vancouver. WITH VIDEO AND PICS

[Locut0s]

First a note, YES the quality of these videos (10 frames a sec or less) and photos suck. Sorry but a 2nd gen iPhone is the only thing I had to record with. So just keep that in mind before watching the videos.

So after winning the Gold in Men's Hockey we just had to go downtown to catch a bit of the celebrations. I remember the streets here in North Vancouver went crazy when we won the 2002 Gold medal and that wasn't on home soil. Well they didn't disappoint, it was loud, rowdy (though happy and not violent), booze fuelled, and fun! Lots of cute girls in short skirts yelling and hollering along with the guys :D (though you can't see many in the videos). Saw a couple of girls had signatures all over their boobs, sadly I didn't get a pic of those :( . This is NOT at all my type of thing I normally like (immature, rowdy, goofy, sports related) but the celebratory atmosphere is infectious! The party is no doubt going to go all night long here. The street cleaners have a lot of deal with tomorrow as the ground is littered with empty beer bottles and paper plates (mostly from pizza places). Police confiscated any beer and booze that they could see but 95% of the stuff was concealed in 7-11 cups and other containers. We left at about 9:30 and there was no signs that things were going to let up any time soon.


This is a link to a playlist that will play the 12 videos in order (each about 20-40 seconds)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxhb1G1CEOQ&feature=PlayList&p=DDB64FF9B74057DF&index=0&playnext=1

Dancing and waving


Who says the US and Canada don't get along :P


It goes on and on and on, MANY blocks.


Um yeah not sure he wants to be Mayor


Now at night, people are more drunk now.

[denbot]

1. Um, what's up..?

Did we give back Shatner?

:hide:

[kentauros]

3. I don't think their reaction would be that if we had

:P

I'm clueless, too. I haven't been watching the Olympics because I still want C-SPAN-style coverage and no commentary

[Locut0s]

8. Lol yeah you can keep Shatner. While we're at it can you take Michael Bublé off our hands? nt

[sabrina 1]

2. Thanks for the photos and video.

They are great. Everyone looks so happy ~ congrats on the gold for the final hockey game. My favorite was the ice dancing though. The closing ceremonies were fun and I appreciate your posting this as it's fun to see what everyone did after it was all over :-)

[polly7]

4. Great pics!

Thanks for those. I have family there, but at the hospital where my BIL was just paralyzed a week ago going down one of the slopes. He'd have been one of those out there in a Luongo jersey though! They were a great Olympics. So sad they're over.

[Locut0s]

5. Thanks. So Sorry to hear about your BIL. Hope things are OK. nt.

[Swamp Rat]

6. Who dat!

:D Great pix! :hi:

[Locut0s]

7. Never been to Mardi Gras. Had to look that flag up :-) Would love to go some time! nt