Fiddlers and something like Irish Step Dancing. Except the kilts are Scottish.
Okay, loving the bloggers at the NYTimes, who joked about taking the stage-snow to the downhill venues. And now they write:
For Americans viewing at home, the opening ceremony is doubling as a game of “Who’s a Canadian?” So far: Nelly Furtado, Donald Sutherland, and Sarah McLaughlin. — Katie Thomas
But it's Mclachlan, people. (And it looks like there might be more Lilith Fair this summer).
And now Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" and those wonderful prairie acrobatics.
I love the mountains and clouds (which were the aurora borealis and the trees before that). Plus the aerial snowboarders and skiers. And now the illuminated inline skaters.
Some slam poetry on Canadian identity . . . from a YouTube guy.
Now for the speeches, but first a memorial to the Georgian athlete.
No need to mourne too hard for the man who died. He died what he loved doing, what more could any of us ask?
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