Olympic Village Condos

Mum and the D-Guy decided to go back to the Olympic Village open houses today,


Seeing how I passed out the day before because of the heat, they decided to bring MY SuperSTROLLER today!!


There were no police cars at the entrance today. Protesters must be gone then,


One of the many condominium buildings that was used to house athletes during the 2010 Winter Olympics/Paralympics,


These K9 Security Units were still slacking off today, no K9's visible whatsoever, not even in the car!


Then, I couldn't help but notice something at the center of the Olympic Village. Something very BIG!


It's a GODZILLA sparrow!!


Actually, I'm not sure what kind of GODZILLA birdie it is, I'm no birdie expert...


I don't really know why they're (there were two of them) in the middle of the Olympic Village either,


GODZILLA Sparrow bum,


The line up into the open houses were quite long, so mum and the D-Guy decided to walk around the Village first. Again, another K9 patrol with no K9 patrolling. Maybe that's just their company name?


These condos were right by the water, so we took a little walk along the seawall,


See the white dome shaped building the red arrow is pointing at? That Canada Hockey Place, where most of the Men's Olympic Hockey was held,


This is a aboriginal metal art statue of the Canadian maple leaf,


We walked over the bridge,


And D-Guy got tired. I was going to offer him my SuperSTROLLER, unfortunately tho, the weight limit for my SuperSTROLLER was only 165 lbs.... so he's like way over that.....


He crashed on one of those GODZILLA tanning chairs. I thought I'd be a good gurrrrl and stay with him in case he got nightmares about all the GODZILLA stuff around here,


As expected, the nightmare got him. He grabbed me for comfort, and I stood by his side like a good dale should,


When the nightmare passed, I went and laid down where I could keep an eye on him, while enjoying the view of downtown Vancouver across the water.


The red arrow below is pointing at BC Place, where the opening, closing, and celebration ceremonies took place during the 2010 Winter Olympics. The roof had since been taken off and a new one will go up later on. The blue arrow points at the Vancouver Convention Center. That was the Media Center where all the local, and international broadcast stations were during the Olympic Games.


This is the Science World, where kids and adults can go and get engaged in science and future technologies,


D-Guy started smiling in his sleep, no more nightmares I guess. Bet he's drooling too, usually that comes with his smiling.


I waited a little longer by his side,


Then I decided it was ok to wake him up and get going!


Back over the bridge we went,


It was time for the hoomans to check out the open houses, and that meant........

SuperSTROLLER TIME!!!!!


Mum usually brings me everywhere, but she decided that it was best for me to stay outside in my SuperSTROLLER while they took turns to go check out the open houses. My SuperSTROLLER is quite wide, so mum didn't think it was a good idea in a small crowded place.

I didn't mind, I'd much rather to be outside then somewhere crowded.

Mum went in first. She saw this place, a 987 sqf, 2 Bedroom + Den condo on the 4th floor,


The kitchen, dining room, livingroom. Door to the right with blue wall painting is the master bedroom.


The small second bedroom, and the bathroom,


You wanna take a guess at the asking price???

1.3 MILLION Cdn thank you very much!

No wonder those people were protesting yesterday!!!!!

D-Guy went to see another one while mum stayed with me. This one was very nice, and quite a bit bigger than the last one,





He didn't even bother asking the price for this one!

Athlete's Village + Goodies

Mum and the D-Guy heard there was going be a one day only open house at the Athlete's Village today. Those brand new condos were built for the Olympians to stay in during the 2010 Winter Olympics. Now that the Olympics is over, it is time to sell them.

Mum has the Dale House, and D-Guy has the Grooming Place (mum: Derek has an apartment that's currently being used as my winter grooming room.), so they aren't looking to buy or anything. They were just curious as they'd never been into Athlete's Village and wanted to see where they stayed at. The Olympic medals were also going to be on display there.

So this afternoon, they decided to take me to go check it out. I still can't really go have FUN at the BEACH or anything (because of Vet-Stem procedure), so this is the best outing for me for now (so I don't die of BOREDOM)!!

Making our way towards Athlete's Village,


Remember the official Olympic logo, the Inukshuk? They had one at the Athlete's Village too. It was fenced off though today.


I was trying to claim the bench, but missed by a little,


All the buildings you see in the pictures below were occupied by Olympians during the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics,



As we got closer to the entrance, we saw lots of police cars parked outside,


The policemen even sat on those HorsieMOBILES,


When we finally got to the entrance, lots of people were coming out,


Security was rushing people out, and not letting anyone in......


The reason that everyone was being escorted out of all the open houses was because of these protesters,


We heard from someone that apparently they were trying to break the windows of some building. So for safety reasons, they wanted everyone to get out. You see the signs they were holding - "Homes for all" & "Homes not freeways"?


Well that's because originally, a third of the area for the Athlete's Village were allocated for social/low income housings. However, because of the Olympics, that never happened, and now these condos are going at market price (which is very high). We think everyone/pup is entitled to his or her own opinion, and organized, non-violent protests are ok. In this case, these people had every right to be upset. However, when the protest start to get violent and out of control, that's when a line should be drawn and the protest becomes NOT OKIE-DOKE!

We waited for a while to see if they would let more people in later on. I saw the sign that said K9 Security Unit, but saw no K9 in sight. So despite the heat, I thought I would take its place so the protesters don't get any idea!


Then the heat GOT ME.....


Shortly after I passed out, we were told by the security that they weren't going to let more hoomans in today. He did say though, the open house would be open tomorrow for one extra day.

So we went back to the DaleMOBILE where I continued passing out there,


Heat really sucks all the energy out of me. So to re-energize me, mum went to an Asian market and got me these,


I tried to take the box to my den (mum: She takes everything to the back of the car LOL). But mum wouldn't let me because she said there were too many of them for me to eat all by myself.


There were 9 of them inside the box, (which is nothing for a SuperDALE really)


I had a game of tug with mum. She, who did not know how to win honourably, had to cheat by saying "DROOOOOOOP".


I'm sure you all must be wonder what these golf sized goodies are,


Well, I'll tell you soon......


Just let me have one first,


That was very very VERY good!


Ok, so these are Mochi Ice Cream. They are a Japanese confection made from mochi (pounded sticky rice) and an ice cream filling.


The outer layer is the mochi with the chewy texture, while the inner core is the yummy ice cream.


You can get them in different flavours, like chocolate, green tea, etc.



We just got the vanilla flavoured as that's my favouritest!

Now GIVE ME MOOOOOOOOOOORE PLEASE!!!


Yummmmmmmmm yummmmmmm!


And then there were ONE......

And then there were none.......


I heard those most dreaded words - "ALL GONE!" (while she brushes her hands up and down against each other) (mum: That's Sunshade's signal for no more food, stop begging. She knows exactly what it means, but she always has something to say about it.)

I couldn't believe what I heard. There were 9, how could they be ALL GONE??? Mum and the D-Guy ate 6 all together, I only had TWO and a HALF (as evident above, one of mine had a half bite taken out of it!!!)


I really couldn't believe it, so I thought I better double check the container.


However, it became apparent that there were no more Mochi ice cream left...


I got frustrated,


More frustrated,


MY mochi ice cream ALLLLL GONE........