Silken's Blog

Silken and Ross at CBC Radio's Studio 40 in Vancouver!

I spent the morning between RTPtv and CBC Radio. RTP is an organization that brings sport and play to the most disadvantaged children in the world. I have volunteered with RTP for a decade and served for years as the Chair of the International Board. You can go to the World Of Play located on False Creek between Science World and Canada Hockey Place at the Concord Place Community Celebration Zone in Vancouver and check out more about Right To Play at http://www.righttoplay.com.

Standing in the security line for figure skating right now. My son is stressed we won't get in on time. It is hard not to be critical of the amount of time it takes to get into each venue. I know we need security but these hour line-ups do detract from the experience. The problem is there is no space to add more security gates. People in the lineup are upset because everybody wants to see the event. There are least eight hundred people behind us and the event starts in ten minutes. Yikes! --Silken

Ok, it's official. Canada is hockey crazy.  In Canada Place tonight I have never witnessed more screaming red and white grown men and women in my entire life.  And this is the first game. My son was working me hard to get one of the two tickets to the game, but a night out with my fiancée won out.  Date night at the Olympics. We had a wonderful time thanks to the hospitality of The Hudson Bay.

Gold for Canada in that wild Snowboard Cross. Congratulations Maelle Ricker!

Last night we went straight from Snowboard Cross to Figure Skating. Sounds easy enough since Snowboard started at ten thirty in the morning. After a lot of hurry and wait, we arrived downtown at four thirty and were told it would take an hour by bus to get to Pacific Coliseum. We started walking towards Hastings when I realized we weren’t getting there fast enough. Just then I saw a truck stopped at the light. I rapped on the window assured the driver we weren’t crazy but we were late for Figure Skating. He told us to get in, and after I assured my kids it was safe and warned them to never do what I had just done, we were driving to Figure Skating. In the end we were only ten-minutes late. Thank you -- Silken