2006 Olympic Winter Games Opening Day! Gord up at 6:30 AM to Fenestrelle to prepare the exhibit for the visit: British Columbia's Minister of Art, Culture and Sport, Olga Illish at 11:30. JC and Erik, helping out. Yves Pepin, from the Canadian embassy in Rome, met them at 9 AM at BC Canada House to go up with the entourage. Beautiful, sunny day!



Last night a snarl of traffic to get to a very hip art show "Ciao Da Vancouver". Piazza Solferino -- where many things Olympic are taking place - is closed, so you have to drive around in a maze to get where you want to go! Met Paul Wong and Sharyn Yuen and curator Elspeth Sage, as well as the new Mayor of Surrey! Jaz came out for the first time, and met a beautiful young woman -- from Vancouver! It was great just to relax with the remnants of the crew. Our social calendar is filling up - we have a few invitations to parties and dinners and openings! If only I can start feeling better -- it has been work, work, work since the day the plates arrived two months ago. Time for a break! Everyone in Torino has this cough -- or is about to get it. Gord just got back from Fenestrelle, he's just absolutely bagged. And then we got locked out of the apartment for two hours.

It costs from 800 to l,000 euros per person to attend the opening ceremonies, so we're going to watch it at BC Canada House on the screen there. Time to go!