The Olympic Torch

If the craziness of Christmas wasn't enough, the Olympic Torch came through Kitchener Waterloo on December 27. Since we don't know if or when this will ever happen again, we decided that we would go. It was actually stopping for the day in Kitchener and they had events running from 4pm - 8pm with the torch arriving at 7pm. We had an early dinner and headed out to face the crowds.

Logan and Blue Bear waiting in the car.

There were SO many people there when we arrived at City Hall. We wandered around for a while, got a few free bottles of special edition Coke and took our places to see the torch.

Even the protesters were there.

There was a display of torches from Olympics past.

This year's torch.

The stage...we were pretty far back.

Jacob taking it all in. I turned him around to be facing me shortly after this picture and he fell asleep in the middle of everything.

Logan and Daddy.

Jacob and Mommy.

Typical shot of Logan just amazed with everything going on.

Helping Logan get a better view.

This is a cute shot, I think.

We were in a spot where there were lots of protesters around. I was fine until I saw this cop who even had safety glasses on. At that point, I wondered if they were expecting more than the controlled protest that we had seen up until this point. Luckily nothing more happened.

Here it comes!

They switched torchbearers just in front of us.

Passing on the flame...

Off it goes!

Just before we left to go home...Jacob was there too...just too low to be in the picture.

Happy little Canadian at home.

We had our picture taken with a torch but I haven't been able to get it from the icoke website yet, once I do, I'll be sure to post it.