Click on the photo here and see a marvelous picture of all ten Frost Valley Olympic teams gathered in the Olympic Circle for the Opening Ceremonies. It has been ever the same. It didn't take much for me to sense that precisely this event has happened nearly 50 times on this very site: the teams organized in slices of the circle, sitting in front of their banner, the paint on bedsheets still wet from that afternoon's painting; the cheering in turn; the cheering all at once; the grandiose let-the-games-begin rhetoric; and the moving torch-lighting. The next day--Monday, Olympic Day--ended up as a wash-out because of a cold, driving rain. But spirits were not dampened, and the teams gathered in the dining hall for a rousing Closing Ceremonies. The image below shows the whole camp gathering before joining their Olympics teams, prior to Opening Ceremonies. Click here and you can see and hear the team from Morocco chanting. The video was shot from the roof of Margetts Lodge, quite a feat in itself.
