Probably our best, most fun idea of the entire summer but yet the most poorly attended event.....it's frustrating when that happens but we still had a blast with the people who came! In order to celebrate the Olympics that no one here seemed to care about despite the fact that Zaporozhye Oblast (province) had ELEVEN athletes there!! So we planned Olympic events - some real, some made-up, some ridiculous, all Ukraine versus Canada...or mainly just Steve......Ukraine versus Steve.
But first, decorations!
Steve's hand-crafted Canadian flag aaaaaand a Ukrainian flag that was $2 at the grocery store.
Team Canada:
Team Ukraine:
After the opening ceremonies of singing our respective anthems, we started our events.
Event one: the farthest soccer goal:
The 100 meter race that our friend Igor destroyed:
Throwing an American football through a target:
Farther baseball hit:
We found this Mondetta Canada sweater at a second hand store seriously THE DAY BEFORE the Olympics so obviously we bought it (it was $3!!!) and Steve wore it even though it was +36 that day!
Fastest lap around the track...only three of them actually made it around the entire track!!
The fastest 50 meters without dropping a plastic cup and fork off a plastic plate - I LOST!!! Boo!!
We sang some sort of song when presenting medals (canning lids with a string, so professional) and it always just turned into us singing the Star Wars theme song, ha ha.
The long jump:
Shooting targets with a Nerf gun:
In the end, it was a sad day for Canada. We just couldn't make it out on top, losing three medals to five. The Ukrainian team sang their anthem in victory:
Steve and his hard-fought three medals...actually, they were blow-out wins in baseball, American football throwing and Nerf gun shooting.
The rivalry continues.......
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What a fun event! You guys did a great job planning that one. I would have loved to hear the national anthems being sung!
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