{"id":686,"date":"2010-02-14T20:44:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T02:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wobben.org\/?p=686"},"modified":"2020-02-02T22:48:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T04:48:28","slug":"2010-olympics-winter-wonderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/our-home-life\/at-home\/2010-olympics-winter-wonderland\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 Olympics \/ winter wonderland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right now we&#8217;re in full Olympics mode!! The openingsshow in Vancouver was fantastic and made us so proud to be a Canadian resident!! And thanks to our wonderful neighbours Mike and Alison we finally have the Olympic mittens too now! As for the games&#8230; Dutch speedskater Sven Kramer has Gold and mogul skier Alex Bilodeau just now got the first ever Canadian Gold Medal on Canadian soil&#8230; woohoooo!!!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Olympic merchandise!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wobben.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/winter_olympics2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-687 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.wobben.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/winter_olympics2.jpg\" alt=\"Olympic merchandise!\" width=\"660\" align=\"none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Time for some winter shots. We had a big storm 3 weeks ago with 27 cm of snow and snowdrifts many feet high, which left many people stranded in their own driveway or street for a day. Lots of digging to do, like Nico and Randy from acrosse the street are doing here.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Randy and Nico shoveling snow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wobben.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/snow1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-688 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.wobben.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/snow1.jpg\" alt=\"Randy and Nico shoveling snow\" width=\"660\" align=\"none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"small snowdrift on our deck\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wobben.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/snowdrifts3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-690 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.wobben.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/snowdrifts3.jpg\" alt=\"small snowdrift on our deck\" width=\"660\" align=\"none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moose near Regina! Unfortunately we did not see any yet, this photo was uploaded to the Weathernetwork website on Feb 5 by Todd Harder, photo was taken near Grand Coulee.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"(c) Todd Harder \/ Weathernetwork - moose near Grand Coulee\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wobben.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/winter_mooseneargrandcoulee-toddharder-weathernetwork-feb52010.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-691 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.wobben.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/winter_mooseneargrandcoulee-toddharder-weathernetwork-feb52010.jpg\" alt=\"(c) Todd Harder \/ Weathernetwork - moose near Grand Coulee\" width=\"660\" align=\"none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And when it gets too cold, we&#8217;ll just go to the new Walmart Supercentre that just opened.. it&#8217;s HUGE!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"huge Walmart Supercentre\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wobben.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/winter_walmart.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-692 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.wobben.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/winter_walmart.jpg\" alt=\"huge Walmart Supercentre\" width=\"660\" align=\"none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Further updates: medical went well as far as we can tell, we learned that our file has been moved from Buffalo to LA (Buffalo&#8217;s too busy) and little Smokey went back home after 10 days. That&#8217;s it right now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now we&#8217;re in full Olympics mode!! The openingsshow in Vancouver was fantastic and made us so proud to be a Canadian resident!! And thanks to our wonderful neighbours Mike and Alison we finally have the Olympic mittens too now! As for the games&#8230; Dutch speedskater Sven Kramer has Gold and mogul skier Alex Bilodeau just now got the first &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/our-home-life\/at-home\/2010-olympics-winter-wonderland\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1013,1005],"tags":[1065,1083,1130,1092],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-life","category-at-home","tag-emigration","tag-sports","tag-wildlife","tag-winter","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7810,"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/7810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}