Vancouver Smurf City

The blue coats are arriving en masse now. Blue Olympic coats and large plastic Olympic badges. The city is being invaded by its own citizenry.

The kindly smurf-coloured people you see around town are the Olympic volunteers, and suddenly they are everywhere – outside Sky Train stations, walking down the street, in the grocery store, in the Starbucks – everywhere. It’s the new smurf city. These people are not fence sitters like me. They are full blown blue force supporters. And for the most part, they are all people who already lived here. This is probably a good thing, since I think one of their jobs is to give people directions.