Thursday 11/13/2008

As you can tell, I have started to slack on updating the blog. Sorry about that. At least I am not as bad as Chuck has been. LOL. Anyway, the last day in Guangzhou was good. I think I have everything working. But I am sure I will get some calls. This morning we left for Beijing. We left the hotel at 6:00 am this morning and since there was not traffic we made it to the airport in about 30 minutes. We flew Air China to Beijing. We had heard that it flight never left on time and ours was no exception. We only left 30 minutes late, but got to Beijing at the scheduled time. It took us about 30 minutes to get to the hotel. Nice Holiday Inn Express, and we can see the Birds Nest Stadium from our room.


We are about 2km from the Birds Nest Stadium and Water Cube, etc. We walked around there today and took some pictures.


We went inside the stadium, it was 50 RMB for a ticket, and saw Chris and his family, it was awesome!!! Funny we run into the only other Americans in Beijing China from Memphis at the stadium. We did not even plan it.


They had some displays setup inside on the stadium field. I got some pictures of one of the drums used on the opening Ceremonies and some of the costumes warn.

This is a picture of the finish line of the track where the fastest man in the world ran the 100m and 200m.

Since we got up at 5:00 Chuck and I were both tired, so we came back to the room at about 6:30 and both fell asleep watching TV. I figured I would wake up at 4:00am if I did not get up so I decided to update the blog. We are off to the Great Wall tomorrow morning bright and early. Enjoy some of the pictures from around our Hotel and of the Stadium.