I was out at my friendly neighbourhood Toronto grocery store a few weeks ago and had to pick up sour cream for some fajitas I was making for dinner.  I wandered over to the Dairy section and as I approached I looked up.  Before me was the best thing I’ve ever seen, a display made out of pop can boxes read “GO CANADA GO”.  I stopped right in the middle of the store to stare at it.  I have always wondered at what point I would start to see evidence of Canada’s Olympic Games in my hometown.  The answer seems to be now!  So now I’m wondering what is going on in other parts of Canada as we get closer and closer to Vancouver 2010.
Toronto has Olympic Spirit, how about you?

Here is an idea I came up with.  I want people to send in pictures of any kind of display of Olympic or Canadian spirit in their community.  Whether it is a display, a sign or decorations, let’s see how Olympic spirit is being shown all across Canada.  Now, it’s not enough to put on a pair of red mittens, as cute as they are, and send in a photo.  It should be something a bit out of the ordinary, like a huge display in a grocery store! Or somewhere else you wouldn’t expect to see such a display of Canadian pride.

You can email your photos to my notashopaholic at gmail.com address.  I will compile them for a future blog post.  I’ll give you until end of January to submit photos because I know it may take some time to find these great displays of Canadian Olympic pride.  Ideally, I would like to see at least one from each of our provinces and territories.  Maybe we could somehow arrange for people to vote for their favourite photo with the winner able to claim bragging rights.

Send this to everyone you know, tweet it on Twitter and blog about it.  I can’t wait to see which city has the best showing of Olympic Fever!

Go Canada Go!

You can find my email address in my profile on my blog: Journey to Vancouver 2010 – Diary of a Fan.  When sending a photo, be sure to include your name, city where the photo was taken and a brief summary of the image you are submitting.  I’ll need that to include in the blog post.  Thanks in advance for your efforts. Have fun!