Olympic torch comes through Whitehorse
Carrie posted in What's happening on November 10th, 2009
Last week the Olympic torch was brought and run through Whitehorse. My office is right across from the airport and so we ran out there to see it come running by, then at home it came down from the Canada Games Centre and right past our house. The funniest part was the gridlock it caused at the intersection of the Alaska Hwy and Hamilton Blvd. There were cars backed up for…metres… and people would go to turn left and suddenly there was no place to go so they were stuck in the middle and the light would change and cars are trying to go around them and they’re trying to back up but the person behind them doesn’t know what to do and everyone is waving and panicking and no one knows what to do. I thought, “Aww it’s just like home…”
Afterwards we went down to Shipyards park where they had a stage set up with musical entertainment and food boths and lights and speeches etc. It was very carvival-like. CocaCola gave out free cokes in glowing bottles and everyone had flags or cowbells or these weird little tamborine things that RBC gave out. You could get your picture taken with the torch and they had bonfires all around. I was really tired and didn’t want to go out of the house again, but I thought, “This thing doesn’t come through here every year, so I’d better go and check it out.” so i did.
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