Beer Belly Gold Medal

As usual, Joe and I came down off our mountain and went for our morning "stroll." We got to visit "Celebration Square" today. Let me remind everybody that we had to work the 2:30-23:00 shift and the real medal ceremonies start in the evening. Our visit was a little more special because somebody (name withheld in case we get unnamed person in trouble) just gave us an all access pass. I, of course, was the entertainment and at the time of this writing, the only recipient of the Beer Belly gold medal. Actual medal to follow, once I can find a gold coloured metal can to crush and bend into a weird shape.

We also managed to find a real gold medalist today. We found Jon Montgomery showing off his crushed gold can, bent into a weird shape. He is such a ham:)!
If he stops exercising and stops launching himself head first down a ribbon of ice on a food tray, I will personally invite him to become the second recipient of the Beer Belly gold medal (BBGM). I watched him on TV training for the BBGM and I must say that he needs work. A true BBG medalist would have finished that jug of beer in a single swig and not allow the beer to get warm as he walked down the "stroll" being interviewed and in general, hamming it up.


We also found the memorial for Nodar. I'm not sure how it got there but many people visit and some leave things but most just pay their respects. An artist from Calgary decided to paint a memorial painting over one of his own canvas paintings. He drove in all the way from Calgary with no idea how he was going to get it to Nodar's father. He did find a "smurf" that could help him and I expect this painting will make it to the closing ceremonies. (Handy, those "smurfs" in a tight situation! Just don't expect to get in through the out door of the welcome tent.)