The Olympic torch relay stopped briefly in Cloverdale today - Monday February 8 - around 2:30. We decided to walk over to Highway 10 for a look. Us and a few thousand others!
Several vehicles that were part of the torch program came along first including some of the sponsors. Also buses that were transporting the runners to drop them off where they'd be running.
We walked up to a spot in front of Maynard's tack store, halfway between the musem and 177B Street. Oddly enough a lot of people were standing on the opposite side of the road alongside Clover Square Village. I thought it might be hard for them to see because traffic was moving east bound along Highway 10 thus blocking their view.
Traffic continued west bound for awhile and then became one lane only. Then it came to a complete halt somewhere up around 180th Street. I'm not sure if the police were redirecting traffic down there and up 58th Avenue or if they came to a standstill for ten minutes or so. But I know that eastbound traffic on Highway 10 came to a complete standstill. The police would not let them proceed past 177B Street and all the pedestrians on the mall side wound inbetween the stopped traffic to get a better view of the torch bearer.
I managed to get one of the coveted 2010 Olympics edition of Coke Zero. Several people from the Coke truck were passing them out, but they can only hold a couple at a time, and the crowds were so huge that very few people received one. I managed to get out on the street with my dogs and claim they were thirsty and I got one! Which Kerry promptly opened up and drank because he was thirsty! It might look like a bottle but its really an aluminum can.
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