Turin Olympics

With Canada's hockey team favoured to win a Gold Medal, 50 of us, including Tim (left) & Chris and me, bussed down to Turin to see them play the Czechs.

We headed out from Kandern early in the morning, crossing Switzerland and the Alps into Italy to take in the game.

Turin's a large city, but the huge Olympic flame was our guide to the venue in the heart of the city. It was amazing to think that we were in the same city as many of the world's top winter athletes!

Included in the crowd was The Great One - Wayne Gretzky, and although he wasn't sitting far away, a glass barrier separated the box seats (his) from the cheaper seats (ours), and so we did not meet him. His Dad was walking around meeting folks though, and here is likely as close as I will get to greatness. I don't know who the kid who popped into the photo is.

The Olympic Experience was terrific, and it is a day we will not forget! The game was great - Canada even won 3-2, though the Czechs played much better and deserved to win.

Given that these winter games only come once in four, one wonders what the world will be like, where will I be, what will happen before the next ones. I'm glad God knows the future - not me!