Tech in and opening ceremonies

Yesterday tech in at 10.40, the weather was a lot cooler, foggy, windy, clouds, real jacket weather, most of us did not bring the jacket, so it was pretty cool. Before tech in it was time for pictures. unfortunately the starting ramp was not up yet so we had to take pictures on a dusty road with the city as backdrop. It looks pretty good. Tech in went smoothly, no major problems, done in 20 minutes. After lunch at Lillians Coffee we went to an orchid exhibition in town. The traffic was crazy, so we lost Kim and David in this mess, we could wave them in at the Orchids eventually. The exhibit was a bit disappointing, very small but beautiful flowers. we were done in 15 minutes, we decided to do some shopping in the mall (Sears) but could not find what we were looking for (Lee jeans). We thought it was time for a swim in the pool and a nice cold Corona (or two).

Today we got up pretty early we wanted to find a couple of time checks and go to Pasquara. This town is famous for its day of the death celebrations, nice old center of town with great markets.
We spend a couple of ours in town walking the markets, the sounds, smells an colours were fantastic. We will go to the day of the death celebrations, on November 1st. Kim's friend will take us and show us the most beautiful places.
Had lunch at Lillians and went swimming for half an hour. had a meeting at 4.30 and left with taxi's to the opening ceremonies.
Never seen such a crowd at the opening ceremonies, a great parade through the center of town. People all dressed up, great ambiance. Riders and support crew were separated unfortunately after that the speeches started and some acrobatic trial riders started to do his tricks, we left when the police started to perform on some old bikes. Most Canadians stayed in town to go to the governess's palace to have a drink and some hours d' ouvres.