We're Ready for the Olympics

[purrley]

FINALLY!! Looks like my snow dance finally paid off - we've got 10 - 12 feet in the mountains - last week at this time we had 0. Shoveled at least six inches off my driveway the other night - look out easterners - it's coming your way, the mid west is already loving it

[Logan]

Purrley, how exciting!!!! I LOVE the Olympics, and you're going to have them right there in your backyard!!! Helen and I will be glued to the television! We are excited because the torch is coming through here in a week or so, and we will be able to be a part of that. Otherwise, we will be hoping for lots of snow for the ski slopes, and look forward to watching as much as possible!!!!
Hope you get to enjoy some of it in person!!!

[purrley]

Logan - how bout you come here for the Olympics and I go to your house during that time. You know alot of Utahns are really not at all excited about this upcoming what we all feel will be a fiasco here in our State. I know the Olympics are really special but due to the discontentment in the world right now with all the terrorist problems we're not too excited to have this event here. One of the venues (Figure Skating) oval is almost literally in the backyard of where my daughter lives. It is directly in back of my grand daughters Daycare facility. We are going to keep her out of there for the 2 weeks in Feb.
And no - I wont attend anything in person - I will be watching it on TV also. I'll just be keeping my fingers crossed hoping nothing ugly happens here.

[Logan]

Maybe it will go smoother than you expect, Purrley. When the summer Olympics were in Atlanta a few years back, I think it went much better than the people there expected. That's only two hours from here, and we didn't read any bad reports.

I just hope it will be safe. I can certainly understand the concerns about that.

Hang in there! It will come and go very quickly, I'll bet.

[3-greys-and-a-mutt]

It's bound to be very hectic but very exciting! I went to the 1996 Atlanta games, and it was an amazing experience. The city was transformed with barricades, port-a-johns, and vendor booths. All in all, it was very clean, neat, and organized! But I've never seen so many pedestrians in my life! At lunchtime every day, there was a two-hour wait for just about every restaurant downtown. (That's why there were so many vendors selling burgers, etc. on the sidewalks.)
As a spectator/tourist, I loved the Olympic experience - but I don't think I envy you, purrley, as a resident who will have your live thrown off-balance for a few weeks!

[4 feline house]

Purrley, you sound like me! I guess some people would call me a grump or a fuddy-duddy, I prefer "practical"!

Boeing decided to move their corporate headquarters and Chicago and Dallas were the finalists. Everyone was hoping they'd move to Dalls, I was hoping they'd go to Chicago! We have enough traffic and overpopulation as it is, and with all the tax breaks these idiot cities offer, it would be years before they would be pulling their corporate tax weight!

Shortly after that, Dallas found out they were not on the short list for the summer Olympics (I believe for 2012). I cheered as everyone else cried and moaned. Who needs all those people clogging up our already overburdened freeways and encumbering are already too-limited public transit systems?

Anyway, I feel for ya!

[purrley]

Leah - that's exactly what is going to happen and since we won the bid for the games all are freeways have been rebuilt which was a really bad mess when that was going on. Our taxes will definately sky rocket and our transit system is already experiencing problems - oh that's another thing that had to be built - our trax system - which tore up the whole city of Salt Lake while that was being done also. So side streets were a mess as well as the freeways - and the traffic - it was hell on earth that's all I can say. So no - I'm not at all excited about this Oly stuff - I'll be so very glad when its over!!!!!