FREE Movie TOMORROW!!! The Hangover!!

Yes, ANOTHER freebie this week! At participating theatres, you just bring in your Scene card (movie points card) and you can get a pair of tickets to watch The Hangover for FREE!! Not only that, you also get a bag of free popcorn! And if that's not enough, the first 100 ticket holders also receives a goody bag full of special offers, Scene swag and partner discounts! I am there! For more information on participating theatres, check here.

Free Events During Olympics

Now that the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics are drawing near, you might be wondering what to do if you weren't able to snag tickets to any of the sporting events (or couldn't afford to!). Well, have no fear, there are events going on in Vancouver and neighboring cities that are completely free! Just check out City Caucus here for a guide to free events. Enjoy!

FREE Grand Slam Breakfast at Denny's TOMORROW!!!

Tomorrow Denny's restaurants is giving away Grand Slam breakfasts for FREE between 6am and 2pm. Make sure you head on over to your nearest Denny's to get in on a free meal! Unfortunately I have to work and won't be able to make it *boohoo!*

Please vote for my picture!

I entered my sister's pic in a contest, and the person who has the most votes wins a $500 shopping spree! If you vote, you also get a chance to win $500!! Please vote for me!

http://beproudcheerloud.com/content/entry-34

The Quest Continues...

I have still been on the search to get the complete collection of Olympic Mascot Happy Meal Toys at Mcdonalds. I try to stop be every Mcdonalds I see, but now that I have started work, it's a little harder to find time. My friend also discovered these toys the other day and is determined to get the complete set as well! She helped me get #4, so now I am only missing the last two (#7 & #8). It's hard - every Mcdonalds I go to only has #1 and 2! *grumble* On another note, I finally found a picture of the toys! Aren't they adorable?? I wish they were plush though, it would have been even cuter!

McDonalds Grand Re-Opening & McCafe

McDonalds all around the Lower Mainland have been renovating their restaurants lately it seems. Once they are done, they all hold some sort of grand re-opening, where they have good deals on some item on their menu, and sometimes they also have prizes! So last weekend, there were grand re-openings at two Mcdonalds, and sister and I decided to go to one of them. There were advertisements about it in the papers all week, and that there would be free cupcakes, free collectible Coca Cola bottle to first 100 customers at McCafe, and prizes to be won. The food specials were 79cents for hamburgers and 99cents for cheeseburgers.

So we arrived at 11am, which was when the events were supposed to start, and we both ordered a hamburger and mocha from the new McCafe. We each were able to get the collectable Coke bottle. Then we entered a contest to win a pair of tickets to the Olympics closing ceremony. After we ate, we lined up to spin the prize wheel. There were lots of prizes to win: a Mcd's olympic water bottle, toque, $5 gift card, pen, Olympic mascot lapel pin, coupon for free Big Mac. When it was finally my turn, I spun the wheel and landed on the toque - YAY! Except...they ran out. So I had to spin again!! I luckily landed on the mascot pin, which was what I wanted anyway. They only had Miga pins left (I really wanted the Quatchi one!). Next my sister spun the wheel and landed on your choice of prizes! She wanted the toque, but since it was all out, she was trying to decide between a pin and a water bottle, and got the bottle (the black one).

Ronald McDonald showed up to do the ribbon cutting and do prizes (which he made any adult who won give it to a kid right away, so guess we weren't eligible). Prizes were a tshirt, ipod shuffle, a complete set of Olympic mascot Happy Meal toys, and a complete set of water bottles, with one autographed by the snowboarder Olympian (forget his name). Then the cupcakes came out, and we each had one.

Sis decided that she wanted to check out the other grand re-opening as well, so after a stop to get some free hockey cards, we went down there. The ribbon cutting was at 1:30, but we didn't make it until 2, and the prize wheel was already over! We made it just in time to catch the last contest for the complete set of water bottles - but before Ronald McDonald could finish asking the question, this man yelled out the answer >:( We were just sitting there politely letting him finish. Humph. But then Ronald was like, okay we will have a bonus question! And I got it - but there was no prize! He said it was a hug. HAH. But after, he said come with me, we'll find you something! He spoke to a McD staff and said there was a tie. She gave me a green water bottle and a coupon for a free extra value meal!

So it's fun to check out grand openings, because you never know what you can get! I look forward to going to the next one!

Pin Trading

With more people from around the world coming into Vancouver, more media are arriving as well. This is also about the time pin collectors and traders show up at Olympic venues with their giant stash of pins. They setup outside with their pins on display and just hang out all day, trading pins with people. I always knew there were people that collected and traded lapel pins, but I had no idea there was such a craze for it! It's insane the amount of pins these people have, and how early the go to start. I mean, don't these people have jobs?!

Pins go for an average of $5 to $8, with larger or special ones being more. I have always collected pin, but passively. I'm afraid that once I buy one from somewhere, I'd HAVE to buy from other places. $8 each time will rack up a huge bill, fast. So I've never bought any pins, and only keep the ones that I get for free! I have a tiny pin collect, most of them from sponsors of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. Many of the pin traders only collect Olympic pins, and they go to the Olympics every two years (both summer and winter) to collect and trade their pins! Now that I have seen some of their collections, I have to get in on it. I see everyone with a few lapel pins on their lanyards, and some people get them for free from people who just give it to them!! WHAT! How come I am never that lucky?! Anyway, I am searching for a Coca Cola pin that only CC staff seem to have, a CTV and an NBC pin. I'm determined to get them before the Olympics are over!

Pin trading is an interesting and cool hobby, and you get to meet a lot of great people from all over the world (they travel here just to trade pins at the Olympics!). There are also pin trading clubs you can find, where pin collectors just get together and swap pins! If you're interested in getting in on these pins while they're hot, check out this website to learn the rules of pin trading!