Canadian olympics while in France!!

What an experience it has been watching the olympics being hosted in your home country while living abroad. Everyday someone else would ask about it and how Canada was doing, etc. However, the best things was watching the Men's Gold medal hockey game between Canada and the USA. Me and some girlfriends decided to watch the game. We started at a Canadian bar but it got way too crowded and the game was still an hour away. So we headed down the street a bit and ended up at an Irish pub (just around the corner from another Canadian bar). We thought it wouldn't be too busy. Boy were we wrong. However, we were lucky enough to get a table so we could actually sit and enjoy the game. What a game it was too!! Those of you are interested in the actual game probably already know all the details so I am going to discuss the watching of it rather than the amazing-ness of the game itself :) It was actually pretty cool to have a whole bunch of Americans and Canadians (as well as some French who thought they were either Canadian or American) watch the game. What an atmosphere. Everytime someone scored, or almost scored, or there was a great save or a nice check into the boards the whole bar would roar. There was some definite rivalry between our table of Canadian girls and the Americans around us, but we had lots of support from all the Canadians in the bar. It was almost like being home and enjoying the game. I actually enjoy watching North American sporting events out here because of the mixture of cultures that show up just to witness the atmosphere. It is pretty cool and a lot of fun. You meet crazy, random people simply because you are going for the same team or because you aren't. Either way, it was a super event and definitely worth going out on a sunday evening for it. Up next, March madness!!!