finally recovered

Well as you know the Olympics are on. Ravelry (a knitting and crocheting site ) is having Ravelympics and you get medals for completing events like the Ariel unwind, WIPS Dancing etc. So far I have earned 6 medals and hope to earn 5 more.







Needless to say I have been on a mad knitting streak plus looking after DGD when her Mother works.

Friday Molly and I decided to go see some of the events around the cities so we got on the bus.............. went to Richmond to the 0zone. We should have checked somewhere to get a time table as 'BC Street ' was closed to the public because of a media event , something else was closed so we waited in the line for "Heiniken Holland house" Half an hour later we got in only to find that the only things that were open were the ones that wanted to sell you something. We then decided to take the Sky train to Vancouver as we wanted to go to the Art Gallery ........................ an hour and a half wait .......................... we couldn't stand in line that long after alll the standing and walking we had done. One of the volunteers suggested we come first thing in the morning as the wait was a bit shorter then so that is a plan for this week.
We then decided to wander around and see what was going on................








I arrived home that night rather exhausted only to find out the BIll had not been able to take DGD to see the Musical Ride so Saturday what happens................... a rather tired Grandma takes DGD to the Surrey Olympic site for the day and we still didn't get to see the Musical Ride................................if you think I was tired on Friday night you should have been me on Saturday night......... It is now Tuesday I think I have recovered........ 9 year olds are very busy people and we had a great day.
The thing that is the most amazing is the number of people and there is no pushing, everyone seems to have a smile on their face and so many people are wearing something that signifies Canada. It is a wonderful atmosphere no matter where you go .

the adaptor blew up and the library

Today I went off to the library to return the books that were due yesterday. I love the library. I find something very restful about being surrounded by books. Anyway I thought I should see if I could find the first book in this series that the Gals have said is a very good. There is only one problem ...................I can't remember the name of the series, the book or the Author. This makes it very difficult to find the book so I phone Gail and say " What was the name of that book I wanted to borrow that you thought you had but didn't?" There is a long pause ................... then Gail says "I can't remember." .................. After a few seconds she remembers that the second book in the series is "Dragonfly in Amber". I check out on the library computer and find out that the first book is "Outlander" by Diana Gabaldon. I then phone Gail to tell her what I found out. I sure hope this is a good book.

Saturday Hugh and Molly are here for dinner, we are waiting for Bill who is late. We are just chatting and enjoying a glass of wine when the adapter/charger for the laptop BLOWS UP. Yes that is right it BLEW UP .................... there was noise, sparks, flames and smoke. The case burst open and the insides burst forth.......... what a mess, It is FUBAR and now we don't have a computer to use. There is the PC in the ROOM but it isn't set up and there is no anti-virus for it and no place to set it up ............ darn ...............darn ...........darn.

BUT as you see I have made this post................. right. Darling Daughter Jill has brought over her laptop for us to use. I think she figures her Dad will loose it without his daily computer fix.

Maybe by Friday we will have things back to normal around here or as close to it as we get.