Vancouver Olympics Trip 2010

Greetings from Canada, eh!!! For anyone that doesn't know, I applied for, and was hired to drive bus during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, and subsequently was kept on as one of the few drivers by percentage to work during the Paralympics. While working the Olympics, I was staying at a hotel/casino/convention center in Langley, BC and while working during the Paralympics, I stayed in Squamish, BC on a 44 year old cruise ship called the Mona Lisa. Just so anyone that looks at these knows, the first 5 things you will see are some video I shot and the first 12 actual photos in this gallery were all taken from inside a moving bus, thus the less than stellar quality. I did not take the photos of the countries flags. Get this, even though I had to pass drug, security, and background checks to be able to not only work in Canada, but more specifically during the Olympics and could drive the media, the spectators, and the athletes from point A to point B, I didn't have the proper accreditation to walk 50 feet into a "secure" area of the athletes village to take those photos and the ones of the accommodations there. So, I gave my camera to a guy willing to take them for me. Talk about a slap in the face when barely legal volunteers that stood around waving and smiling could go pretty much anywhere they wanted without question. One of the most unfortunate things about this whole experience was the fact that I was surrounded by some of the most beautiful landscapes and scenery I have ever seen, but didn't have the ability to just go out and photograph it. I took almost all of these photos while working. Definitely need to take my wife back and show it to her.