Last night we hosted The Legendary Mike Brisbin and two other co-horts from Toronto Special Events at an impromptu party in our upgraded suite at The Sheraton. Monika, who is legendary in her own right for her kind manner, voice and calm nature under duress (the Legendary reputation has spread to the entire department! Now it's The Legendary Special Events Office at City of Toronto) told us of her daughter's visit to the installation. "Mommy can I have some of this candy?" "Honey, it's not candy, it's ice." "No, Mommy, it's CANdy! You're just saying that because you don't like me to eat candy!" There were other stories. People argued with each other that it was really glass, jello, plastic. Mike watched one person reach, reach, reach and finally when she thought no one was looking -- touched! He gave her a thumbs-up. But the best one was an overheard story: "You know how the media hypes everything up - and when you get there it's not as great at they say it is? Well, this is even better than all the publicity!" Al Burns sent a bunch of photos, but I've got to space them out.

Last night we had our last meal together at Hal's Burgers - our Core Crew, 2nd crew and Cat Fawcett, our PR lady. Tim and JC had just returned from the strike at Niagara on the Lake, and already there was talk of future exhibits: Dubai, Moscow, Chicago.