Olympics: Day 2

Well it was just another day at work....except today wasn't rainy n cloudy like yesterday. It was better all round. They decided to move the 'acoustic' stuff upstairs to the room where they have the food tasting. this is better in many ways...PA, many people and it is actually apparent you are with the atlantic house....here is a pic of my view from the 'food tasting room'....pretty awesome gig....here is a view from the one side of the room....

And the other side....

I met up with one of the other performers that is doing the same thing as me and it turned out to be Mike Dixon from PEI. Great Blues player who I've not been in touch with for a long time so it will be fun to catch up and jam a bit while we're here.

I've also really been enjoying the market on Granville Island...so much good food for decent prices! All in all a great day at work. Tonight I had a great time. Chris Colepaugh and Lynn Daigle were in town to play with the lovely and talented Samantha Robichaud. Needless to say I was excited to play with my old friend and rock n roll mentor Chris Colepaugh. We really haven't had time to hang since the first Hullaballoo a couple years back so we had a good time catching up. I played him some of the mixes from the new record and we had some cold ones to help with the reminiscing. I was extra lucky to catch Tim Chiasson from PEIas well as the Grass Mountain Hobos at the atlantic house kitchen party. They are certainly an xrated sot of fun when in the van and a rocking left bluegrass, deliverer of great times when not in the van...

What a time. Craziness everywhere. Colepaugh and I had a lot of fun hanging with Tim's band Morning fold in a near by bar while they killed time before some of them flew back to PEI at a really silly hour of something to the tune of 8am......enjoy the flight boys. I hope its a safe one and that you don't get extra security attention due to your particularly 'fragrant' style of mouth wash....

I also got to spend a lil time with good friend and mentor Thom Swift. We got to witness a huge family of raccoons scale the walls of our hotel. Perhaps I can grab some video of this for us all to see tomorrow....it was all very amusing until I realized my window was open where they were frolicking.

Really all in all it was a great day. It's hard to believe that I'm out here to perform and that the Olympics are really happening. when you are in a bar and the Canadian team wins gold like today for mogul competition, it really is moving and I feel really honored to be part of it all!!! truly spectacular to be here to take it all in. More good times afoot. stay tuned....

Ross