Opening Ceremony

Paula and Daniel got up really early this morning, at 3 a.m. This was because the live television coverage of the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games would start at this time in Sweden. We go by Central European time, whereas Vancouver in Canada goes by Pacific Time. Mum said it should not be hard to be awake at this hour for her, because it is the real time zone for Taichung dogs, and she has lived for many years at kennel Taichung in Tenino, WA, USA. Nevertheless, I believe she slept though most of the ceremony, just like the rest of us did. Daniel stayed awake for the longest time, but even he fell asleep by the end of the ceremony. It was some boring show numbers in the middle and towards the end, he said, whereupon Mum said it would have been better if it had been south of the border, in the USA. She is always the American patriot, my Mum.