PIGS CHEER APOLO TO FIRST MEDAL OF GAMES!

Short track News - 2010 Winter Olympics - CTV Olympics

NO ORDINARY HALLELUJAH!

Video | Musical recap of the Opening Ceremony | NBC Olympics
EDWIN TOOK HIS PACK ON THE BUS YESTERDAY, NOTHING IN HIS HAND BUT SOME VEGAN PUMPKIN BREAD AND ENDED UP ON THE FRONT ROW AT OPENING CEREMONIES OF THE 2010 OLYMPICS WHERE k.d. land sang our favorite song as the Olympic cauldron was lit dramatically!

Our deepest sympathies to the family, team and friends of the Georgian luger who lost his life in a practice run yesterday. Edwin said after the Olympic flags were raised they were lowered to half mast.

We hope and pray, not for snow on Cypress Mountain, but for a safe and peaceful time and place where the entire world can celebrate as One.

EDWIN WALKS INTO TOWN, ON FRONT ROW OF OPENING CEREMONIES

We just received news that Edwin, who boarded a Greyhound bus with only a backpack and no tickets for anything, is sitting on the FRONT ROW at the "Opening Ceremonies" having traded tickets with someone who didn't mind sitting further away because he wanted to sit with his wife.  Apparently, Edwin is actually on the stage, the seats are THAT CLOSE. We want to get to know him better.

We hope he read the instruction manual that came with the new camera we gave him as he journeyed from Bellingham to Vancouver because WE WANT PROOF!  There's much, much more...so:

STAY TUNED!

OLYMPICS FROM NBC correspondents Panda Pig, YumYum, and Bear

Video | Headlong into 2010 | NBC Olympics

Watch it!

Hear it!

Feel it!

BE THERE!

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B-210: Canada's Secret Weapon

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We guinea pigs think it's really, really great how desperately the Canadians want to "own the podium" SO we dispatched Yum-Yum, who brings us breaking news he uncovered revealing their secret "B-210" strategy!

This is fo real, y'all! (YumYum, stop giggling, they can give things funny names like in James Bond movies if they want!)

 Hee-Hee. OOPS, that was me...sorry...B-210?! What?

YumYum wants to win the Golden Cavy Award for his investigative journalism, but it's only Day 1, all the pigs are out digging up stories (and vegetable gardens), so stay tuned to our Posts,  plus Edwin's Daily Calls from the Center of the Universe!  He is currently standing in line, waiting for Opening Ceremonies to begin in Vancouver and, apparently, they have TWO, that's right TWO cauldrons to light, one inside, one outside.

Of course they do.

So stay tuned as new posts arrive daily, LIVE FROM THE 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS IN VANCOUVER, CANADA! Seriously. And Hail the syrup-sucking B-210 athletes in their quest to "own the podium!"

LET THE GAMES BEGIN IN 2010!

LETTING GO, REVISITED.

Mom has FINALLY decided, once and for all , to put her racing gear away and relax. She will be putting up pictures of us instead of imagining herself on the ice. As exciting as sports can be, she told Edwin tonight that nothing beats hearing a rescue piggie purring; laughing when he popcorns straight up into the air, then running away only to end up popping madly again because he's too happy to be bound by gravity! That would be me, The Flying PandaPig!

Hey, it sure beats smashing head first into the wall when you turn a corner too fast on the ice and wake up wondering who you are and how you got upside down.

We are grounding: Healing. Calming. She knows who she is when we are on her lap: Happy! Content. Peaceful. And she wants for nothing with us around: It is THAT sweet! Yup, that's us! Good to the last drop, we are!

Our infectious affection has helped mom let go of who she was when she was healthy and embrace all the goodness that she has received since becoming too ill to speedskate into walls and turn upside down. Now the only stars in her eyes are us: Yours truly PandaPig,  YumYum the "One-Pig-Circus-Act"& and Bear the Beaver Pig: Rescue Pigs to the Rescue! Yup!

Mom is happy in a quieter way now; serene, in the moment, and content to hear YumYum conversate with the birds outside while we stifle our own giggles to avoid embarrassing him. (And those proud wild birds who do not realize they are courting a little guinea pig with their whistles and singing.)

No more racing around for mom:  No more chasing happiness. Every morning we chase her with our wake-up call: "Breakfast, Mom, we know you're up, so Breakfast. NOW! WwWHHeeeEEEEkkkKK!" The  three TenorPigs are her new starting gun and inner peace the finish line.

The race is on every morning right here at home, not in the skating rink, just the refrigerator: will it be carrots, lettuce, cucumber, or a kale kind of morning? Oranges? Apples? Hard decisions. Tough choices: Wonderful.

So, these 2010 Winter Olympics, Mom has put her skates away in the closet once and for all only to race, sliding in her winter socks to the fridge for our breakfast. She races For love: Love at the speed of ice!

EMOCLEW

Bear is spell-checking the Welcome Mat: "E M O C L E W."

Well, Bear, are we ready for our Olympic hopefuls?

"Yes, we can now officially emoclew them with our hospitality, enthusiasm, kale, hay, and my good looks. Definitely ready for Opening Ceremonies!"

As It Has Been Written on the Mat, So Shall It Be!

Anything you care to add, Yum-Yum?

"WHHHHHHHHHHeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeK! Full of Glee, I am!"

Thought so. Good night, athletes! Good night, YumYum. Good night, Bear the Beaver Pig. Good night, Mom. Good night Edwin. Good night stars. Good night Windstorm. Good night Dark Sky.

Tomorrow Fireworks will light up the sky!

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

"WHEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeek! Games! WheeeEEEEk!"

Good night (again) YumYum!

And Sweet dreams to all of you, dear readers. We SO enjoy having you visit and invite you to add comments: Who are your favorite Olympic guinea pigs? Which guinea pigs do you think will win in Vancouver?

All the piggies who are rescued and adopted in loving forever homes. Thank you, guinea pig rescue of Vancouver. We dedicate these games to YOU, the real Champions of the World!

THIS IS ME EXCITED

Hey, I AM excited about the Games but, give me a break, fansters, I just got neutered this week and am a little sore down under. So if I'm not jumping up and down while PandaPig and YumYum are trying to find red, white, and blue fabric for their racing (to the fridge) suits, forgive me.

This is me: Excited.

It will be Wayne Gretzsky lighting the cauldron, I'm sure of it.

Excited.

Neutered excitement.

Thanks, Panda, for letting me post. It was
Exciting.

FOLLOW APOLO

We don't know about links and things, but our hero, Apolo Anton Ohno has his own webpage and tweets and urls and posts and lots of connections to an Inside View of the Olympic Games from the ice!  And off.  So, if you love the Winter Olympics as much as we do, and speedskating as much as we do, and Apolo as much as we do, and you know how to use the Internet better than we do, we hope you'll Follow Apolo and our Team because Opening Ceremonies begin tomorrow night!  Our bet for who's going to light the cauldron is Wayne Gretsky and we'd bet our lettuce leaves, carrots, and cucumbers on it! 

Mom's homeboy, Edwin, arrives this afternoon  from Seattle enroute to the Games and promises to bring us all back lots of souvenirs!  Mom wants pins to collect and we want those red mittens to decorate our cuddle cups and warm up our evenings...tonight we are expecting another wicked windstorm and since our cages are on the floor mom has to work pretty hard to keep away drafts (not good for piggies, not at all!) So...go Apolo, go Edwin, go play those Games and bring home the Gold!  We are very excited as you can tell! 

LAYING OUT THE WELCOME MAT

The 2010 Winter Olympics begin in Vancouver, B.C. in only 2 days, so the whole tribe is working hard to put finishing touches on our welcome mat! Bellingham is the closest American city to the Games although, just walking about town you'd never even know they were happening?!

The Herd That Hears wants Apolo Ohno and all athletes from the U.S and around the world to know you are ALL welcome to our Runabout space if you need a place to practice, warm up, or eat cucumbers and hay.

We don't know how many to expect but apparently there is a downhill skier from Africa called "The Snow Leopard" so we are using our leopard mat in his honor. We love the Winter Olympics!

Bear, you're not eating the cucumber we put out for the Snow Leopard, are you?

HIGH AMONG THE CLOUDS

Losing oneself high among the clouds, mom says, is a beautiful meditation and a place where she feels Grace upon her.
She asked if we have a place like that. I told her when we are loving one another and making her laugh and giggle we have a place among the clouds, too. She liked that. We make her giggle a lot and she does not have to climb up into the clouds to feel Grace upon her when we make her laugh. She said we are a special family who can find so much happiness just being who we are together and living simply.