We have been diligently watching the Olympics. There are too many events for us to watch them all, but we DVR the available footage and make an effort to check some of it out. Viva likes the figure skating; the boys do not. Everyone likes snowboarding. Jake and Bentley like speed skating, luge, and biathlon. Last night I checked out curling which is a very odd sport. Sweepers?! They would be very important if you were playing outdoors, but are they that critical when playing on an inside rink? After ten days of intense Olympic competition the children's enthusiasm, like mine, is waning and there is a full week more of sporting events to watch.
Addendum: The second week of Olympics was ignored by Viva--as was most of the first--she preferred to read. Bentley was the most enthusiastic watcher. He and Jake watched curling for quite some time. It's not a fast moving game, but when I suggested (repeatedly) that they fast forward, they insisted they wanted to see every minute (shown) of the Canada vs Russia match. Bentley then spent two evenings, one on his own (I was in the room sewing) and one with Jake watching the Canada vs USA women's gold medal hockey match. That game goes on for three hours and he fell asleep the first night he was watching. At the end of the second night, I fast forwarded so they could see the sad defeat of the USA team. We had Canada 2-0 until the last 4 minutes of the third period! Our team threw the game away.
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