Are You Gonna Be My Girl?

Spent the morning shopping with Kristen for souvenirs since they're all going on sale (now everything is only moderately overpriced! But... it's the Olympics! There's a price for everything, I suppose.) Anyway, we visited typical souvenir stores, as well as fancy clothing stores, and (pictured right) a HAT store! I don't think the shape of my head really favors hats which is good because if it did, I would have been very tempted to drop several hundred dollars on a really awesome hat (or 4) that I saw there. They had fur hats, top hats, newsboy caps, and a wide variety of tuques (which is apparently the more accurate name for what southerners like myself tend to call "toboggans").

I did spend the rest of my per diem food allowance - but it was on a light jacket with all sorts of patches from different Olympic games on it. I feel like it's the best type of souvenir because it doesn't look like a souvenir, but the patches on it set it apart from a typical jacket. I guess that' why they get away with charging $150 for it. Thankfully, it had come down to a mere $78 (Canadian). The thing is, you really can't get away with spending less than that on a nice jacket here anyway, so the guilt is slowly subsiding. At least now I know that I have cash left over that will lose it's value once I hit the states in a few days. :) I've got enough bread and peanut butter to last me, and I need to eat it anyway, so it works out.

As for the concert: Jet it was really fun. They did include "Are you gonna be my girl" on their set list, which I remember listening/singing/dancing to in 8th grade! It was fun, but absolutely freezing outside with wind and rain, so I wasn't too upset when the concert was over. The base player was not bad on the eyes either. :) AND I was able to snag a guitar pick! Yeah! Unfortunately, the guitar pick from the Fray's concert last night, I have misplaced. I'll search the room from top to bottom and hope I can find it. If not, it's not a huge tragedy.

Hope you all are doing well! I've only got 4 more days of work here before I head home - it's gone by so fast!