The Olympics have come and gone from Vancouver.  There's a great photo floating around the interwebs showing what it was like then and what it's like now.

Vancouver is a lot emptier these days.

The spirit shown by Canadians for those 17 days was unmatched in our history. Such passionate patriotism was unleashed you'd think the city was overrun by Americans with maple leaves sown on their backpacks.

If you were lucky enough to check out the Games, there's a chance to perfectly capture the memory with a customized Vancouver 2010 Memory Book.

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There's an entire roster of branded memoribilia from books to posters, journals and more.

In this digital age, taking the photos off your card, computer or Facebook account and putting them in to physical form is more vital than ever.  Just as your granmother's heart melts a little when you send an actual hand written card instead of a text or facebook wall message for Mother's Day, so is the emotion generated by a printed picture.

You see it everytime you walk down a hall, it stares at you on your desk, you remember every morning when you see it on your bedside table.  Before we used to print pictures and toss them into boxes never to be seen again, now we're doing something doubly wasteful as we taken hundreds times more photos and look at them once on the back of the camera and that's all.

You took the pictures, now do something with them.  The whole roster of Vancouver 2010 Memory branded items are great or you can just take some of your favourite photos and print them off at Future Shop to frame at home or send to friends around the world and let the spirit of the Games live on.

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