Well the Olympics have come to a close and as many would agree they have been a great showcase for Canada and Vancouver.

And surprisingly the ‘Own the Podium’ Program that was introduced in Canada seems to have paid off as we have set a new Olympic record for most gold medals in an Olympics and most gold medals by a host country as you can see from the table below. Although we don’t have the most medals overall but we do have the most Golds, and as most Canadians would agree we got the all important Gold in men’s and and women’s hockey, in an especially dramatic fashion for the Men in overtime against the USA on Sunday.

Well what can I say. I have been here for a week, and can honestly say there is not much in Tulsa, even the people here say nothing exciting happens here. I had been here for a week about 6 years ago for training as well. And we did not do much that time as we were here with Management of the division I was working for at that time, turns out there was quite a bit of animosity between the dvisions and there still is.  I have had a very different experience this time given I am now working for a much closer linked division and the sharing of knowledge is much more free. There is really no major attractions here, unless you are into the extreme religious thing you could check out Oral Roberts University, but I can say I am not one of those people. The basic break down is there is no major league sports team, they do have minor league hockey, but coming from Canada I would be weary of calling it good hockey, no offense to Tulsa but I was blessed enough to grow up in Hockey heaven, Montreal. But on to other things about Tulsa, as far as I can tell the biggest attraction here is College Football, and there are 3 big teams here, you have Oklahoma University, Oklahoma State University, and Third would be Tulsa University. Other than that there is not much else going on in Tulsa, Except if you like to eat, there is probably about 20 restaurants on each corner as far as I have seen. But if you are coming from any other major city in the USA they will all be familiar as most of them are the same chains of restaurants that are spread out across the US. One thing they are proud of here is there steaks, and there is probably more steakhouses than you would see in some other cities. As far as the people go one thing I do have to say is they are very friendly which may be a shock to some people, especially coming from larger cities such as Montreal, London, New York, etc… Where people usually are not that friendly, here people will strike up a conversation with you while waiting in line, on an elevator, etc…

But given the facts I would probably not want to live here personally. but that is just my personal preference you can make your own decisions.