People Art

This is one of the works of art the Olympics put up in Beijing. I heard on the news yesterday that China spent 40 billion-yes that was with a B- dollars on the Olympics. Wow....who can afford that price tag?

Where are all the people?

What struck me about this photo, is the lack of people. In the 4 years that my son has lived there, all I have heard about is how many people are everywhere! Not so much in this photo....I would say that is unusual just on any given day nevermind that is was the OLYMPICS!!

Beijing Olympics Basket Ball Building

This is the basketball arena. My son said it was awesome at night but was unable to get a picture at night. Not sure why, perhaps from all the entertaining he was doing!?
(I only have a few more to share with you.)

Another Olympic shot

Here are the events that my son attended at the Olympics.
He went to 5 events:
1) woman's gymnastics (1st heat china and romania)
2) woman's basketball (NZ v Spain, Czech v Mali)
3) Men's quarterfinal soccer (italy v belgium)
4) Women's quarterfinal beach volleyball (USA v China, Australia v Brazil)
5) Men's Gold medal waterpolo (USA v Hungary)
This is the gymnastics event....he said he had nosebleed seats but was not complaining since his tickets were free!
I just love this picture!

Water Polo Ceremony

These are the girls that brought out the medals and flowers. How cute are they? and notice that their feet are all exactly together.

the Bird's Nest

Air Quality is not so good in Beijing. My son usually wears a mask to protect his lungs but the weeks of the Olympics were the nicest weather...even with the rain...that he has seen in the 4 years he has been there. Of course, all the factories were shut down for amonth but , hey, guess it worked! This happened to be a rainy day and then smoggy a bit when he snapped this one.

Beijing

My son has lived in Beijing for 4 years. He has sent me some great shots around and about during the Olympics. He told me he got to hold a silver medal in his hand and watch the closing ceremonies with a bunch of American athletes...his comment -"AWESOME". I hope you enjoy the shots I will share. (I will remind you that he is a very tall boy....6'8".....sorta stands out in this crowd!)