3rd shift started at 8am. Got placed outside the friends and family entrance with Charles (ex Canadian forces) and Kevin (formerly from Newcastle, moved here 30 years ago as an electrician working on shipbuilding).
Charles acquired one of the patio style heaters to keep us warm, which was fine for the top half, but some underfoot heating would have been nice. It was colder than a cold thing on ice.
With very few people around today due to it mostly being Whistler sports taking place, we were able to keep switching to take time to warm up inside.
A few busses heading to curling for friends and family to have taster sessions, regular busses doing the hotel rounds, but with no competition here, it was light. We spent more time directing people to different places than organising people onto buses. More customer services than a transport role. Hey ho, still, payment's the same 😀
Lunch of beef arancini, pasta and tomato sauce was warm and welcome.
Come 2.45 we were starting to see the next shift people arrive so I headed up to the "Village" at the East part at Canada Place.
They were serving hot chocolate which was very welcome, picked up a few snacks and pins, bought a t-shirt, spoke to some Vancouver tourist ladies about potential options for my newly acquired day off on Saturday.
I decided that too much standing around in the cold not doing much, would be missable for a day, especially with a 6.30am start, so i decided to opt out, and cancelled my shift, while I planned to see some more sights. Though with my current stinking cold, maybe not going in tomorrow would be a better option.
At least I now have contact details for the people meant to be in charge of us, who basically just set us off in the morning never to check on us again.
Tomorrow, there are wheelchair rugby sessions taking place at the convention centre, so things should be busier.
Meanwhile time to try and shift this cold.
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