Bored? Relive Vancouver 2010....

by Lisa Ovens


In case you didn't know, there is a pretty complete Vancouver 2010 youtube channel covering oodles and oodles of Winter Olympic magic.

Vancouver 2010 youtube Channel

And, oh, it's all in HD!  Pop some popcorn and catch the moments you might have missed :o)

Happy Movember everyone!

New Hockey Book From Lisa Ovens

For the Love of Empty Net Goals By Lisa Ovens will be released November 2010. Please follow the link below to learn more and reserve your copy of this hilarious and informative follow up to Lisa's first book, Hockey & High Heels. Also, check out the Pre-Sale Special...Both books for only $35 plus shipping and handling.

For the Love of Empty Net Goals: excerpts and purchase information

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Blog Break Excuse: New Hockey Book on the Horizon!!

                                        Hockey author, Lisa Ovens

Yes, its true. After many delays, the much anticipated follow up to my first book, Hockey and High Heels - a Different Kind of Hockey Book is on a collision course with a date circled on my calendar (the date is in October, just in time for the 2010/11 NHL season).


And because of that, I have been and will continue to devote my time to the production of what I feel will be another ground breaking hockey book.

There will be minimal posting here this summer, but I will keep you all informed on book two developments as they occur.

Please have a happy, safe summer - now go outside and PLAY!!!!

xxoo,

Lisa O.

Happy Easter, Everyone!

Hope you all are enjoying Easter Long Weekend :o)

Skate at the Richmond Olympic Oval This Weekend!

by Lisa Ovens

Hey everyone, I am back at it! Here's some news from Richmond for skating and Olympic enthusiasts...

The Richmond Olympic Oval is hosting public skates this Easter Weekend, April 3, 4, and 5th, 2010.


Time: 1 - 5 p.m.
Location: 6111 River Road (limited parking onsite for $2)
Cost: entry $2, skates $3, helmets $2

Please bring your own skates and helmets to avoid line-ups (very limited quantity of rental skates/helmets.)

As you can see from the crowds waiting to take to the ice at a past public skating event, this weekend will attract plenty people anxious to skate on the same ice as the speedskating stars of the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Happy Skating!

Ouch!

By Lisa Ovens

Hi everyone, hope you are all doing great. I am typing with one hand due to a hand sprain. Ouch!!! It hurts :o(

I will return soon with more content. In the mean time, if you like, why not start at the beginning of the blog? Click here

Or, please visit Lisa's Hockey Lounge...I will have some exciting new hockey posts up there this afternoon. But the latest post about rink board advertising by regular hockeyandhighheels.com contributor Jan Snyder is a good read, too!

Now time to ice the hand...

Cheers :o)

-Lisa O.

Three Little Things I will Miss about the Olympics

by Lisa Ovens

People all over the lower mainland are already missing the 2010 Winter Olympics. That feeling actually set in on March 1st. Then the Paralympic Games started up and we had a chance to get into the routine again: don our Olympic fun wear, travel to see events and cheer. But it's all over now.

Thinking back to July 2nd 2003, when Vancouver/ Whistler learned the 2010 games would take place here, well, it seems like so long ago. And having the games in mind for a seven year period, whatever are we going to think about now? London 2012...and Sochi 2014 I guess.

Right now I am thinking of the little things I am going to miss about having the Olympic movement take up shop in my backyard, and here are a few....

Television Crews Making the News

This was an hourly occurance on some days...compact TV crews finding a place, any place to capture the story. Often you had to be careful not to accidentally walk right in and steal a scene :o)

GrandDaddy Visa

What I mean is Morgan Freeman's voice overs during the Olympic Visa commercials. It was like he was a grandfatherly figure speaking to the whole country when he congratulated us on winning our first gold on home soil. And when we won another gold he was right there to give us kudos again. Then he would tell a little story from Torino 2006; the one about the Norwegian cross country ski coach that gave a canadian skiier a pole mid race when her's broke and she won a silver so we sent Norway 500 tons of maple syrup. Morgan caps the annecdote with "I hope you like pancakes, Norway."
 I almost expected I'd hear him comment when I was making a cup of cocoa in the evening after a long day of Olympic revelry... "Go ahead and add a few more mini marshmallows to that cup, Lisa, you've been a good girl today. Mmm, cocoa...."

Decoration

I loved the look of the Games. It was beautiful to me, so beautiful I don't even want to call it "a brand". From the pretty event tickets to the fence banner above...this just looks how the beautiful south coast of British Columbia ought to look for a monumental event like the Olympics.

all photos by Lisa Ovens