We believe

What a wonderful way to start family weekend - Julia and I were able to get to Waterloo to celebrate Jack's confirmation.

oh - yeah and the Olympics too.

Of course, after being part of two torch runs in December

Julia and I were very excited to see the opening ceremonies.

And to see the cousins.

And together for the evening, we believed.

We felt part of all the torch had come to mean

during its journey across Canada.

We were 6 of the 23 million Canadians who tuned into watch some of the big event.

We cheered as teams from China and Ireland and of course, Canada came into the stadum,

we were solemn as we watched the team from Georgia make their brave walk,

we oooed and ahhhed over the spectacular visual effects, and

held our collective breath when the torch mechanism experienced

some technical difficulties.

An Olympic hug with Maggie, sporting my Olympic gear.

Julia and the newly confirmed Elmo share a moment.
We captured these moments on the TV -
big cheers for our Canadian athletes.

Julia exclaimed when she saw them coming in,
"Hey, they are wearing my hat!"

She was right -- she does have the Canada toque.
And she will wear it proudly in three weeks while we are in China--

weather permitting, of course.

Elmo and Julia didn't last the full ceremony,

but you can see in the green ball

that Butterscotch was doing her Olympic run around the floor.

We look forward to believing with the rest of the country

all that our Olympic athletes will do us proud.