Charlie went to the Vancouver Games.

Before I went to the Games I had seen one live hockey match. I saw about six Women,s games and Maybe ten men's games.



I watched the fils Bozetto win a Bronze in Snowboarding in the pouring rain.



I met some mounties.












Curling is cool.

I had never seen curling, live or on TV and I spent at least ten sessions at the venue.











I was probably the only person in Vancouver with access to the Gold medal Hockey game who didn't go. ( I would have only seen it on TV from behind the Ice and I was cream crackered)

I caught up with some old friends, saw my mum and filed my tax return.

I have never felt so Canadian.

Emily and Christo started to build their hydrophone. Basically just a small amplifier with a microphone that we can hang up to 25ft underwater. Just started soldering all the components onto the printed circuit board. Dad started a long lecture on how to solder and Emily just grabbed the iron and ripped right into it. "We did this LAST year at school dad" - roll eyes. Dad fairly impressed,

Some Photos

Flun Flun Flun (As Steff says after two (2) glasses of wine). Some days are just about maintenancce. This one was to take off the heat exchanger and take it to the Radiatore Man to be pressure tested (put it in a basin of the dirtiest water I have ever seen and then put an air hose in one end and a thumb in the other and look for bubbles). All new hose clamps, new zincs, some new hose and new coolant. A new radiator cap and we are running 10° cooler. All Happy now.