I'm a weasel, you're a weasel, we are weasels too! (sung to the I'm A Pepper song) OR How To Go To The Olympics on $5 a Day.

What is a Weasel, you ask?  And what's a Weasel House??  weaselworkers.com
Weasel Workers are the course workers at Whistler.  Every big mountain that hosts World Cup, Olympics, etc, have course workers.  There are course setters, dye crews, equipment crews, crew chiefs, finish crews, gate judges, radio crews, runners, net crews, security, side slippers, soup tent workers, and timers.   The Weasels set up a Weasel House during the Olympics/Paralympics - a huge tent  for R&R only for Weasel Workers.   Free beer, free wine, music, snacks, and every night a drawing.  They graciously invited patrollers and medical to be Weasels.   The Weasel Pass became the coveted pass at the Paralympics.  You were somethin' to be envious of if you carried a Weasel Pass in your credentials!  

Every night there is a drawing.  For $5 a ticket, you get a chance to win T shirts (Canadian Cowboys - the Canadian Olympic Ski Team), Weasel hats, Weasel pins, even Halti ski wear, which is the grand prize each night.   So far the only money I've spent is $5 a day religiously for a raffle ticket.  I'm hoping for the T shirt 'cause I'm too cheap to pay $30 for one.

One night, someone who had been a torch runner brought their torch.  So we got pictures with it.  Pretty cool.  Heavier than I expected.

• Meals provided.  Check. 
• Lodging covered.  Check. 
• Free beer.  Check. 
• $5 raffle ticket.  Priceless!