SCOTLAND!!!

First:  Heia, Norge!  Norway won the 3-4 match vs. China this afternoon in fine form; the Chinese team lost their mojo and the Norwegians never really lost theirs -- particularly the second, who was groovin' out to the music they were playing between ends.  Note:  they are all quite a lot shorter than (a) they look and (b) I remember.

And then:  Scotland 7 6 Canada in the 1-2 page playoff!!!  Down 6-2 and battled back to win with a deuce and three steals!  Go on, boys!

me:  So can we sit with you all again on Sunday?
Scottish gentleman sitting next to me:  Oh, please do!

WOO-HOO!

(I may have had two or three frozen margaritas during the game and thus be a little buzzy in addition to flying high.  For the record, in the first- or second-end break during the 3-4 match, the PA was playing "Friday I'm In Love" by The Cure, because at this event playing on Friday is the equivalent of playing on Sunday at a bonspiel; and after the 1-2 match, it was playing "Walking on Sunshine", which I am, and the Scots and their families are even more.  Woo!)

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I lived in Scotland for a year (and, tangentially, in England for three more, and although the World Curling Federation recognizes England and Scotland and Wales separately, the International Olympic Committee doesn't, so Team Scotland here is GBR at the Olympics) and studied Norwegian while I was there.  Can you really be surprised that I'm behind those teams when I'm allowed to be behind anyone?  (Side note:  this year's Team USA was, to be frank, fairly obnoxious.  I'd have liked to see them play well, but I'm not especially sorry that they didn't advance.  I'd rather we were represented by a team that comported themselves a little better.)