Olympics

Today was our first day at Olympic events. In the morning, we saw the USA Beach Volleyball women beat Cuba and the Chinese men beat Estonia. It was a lot of fun. Jack and Jed cheered loudly for the US women and were then confused about whom to cheer for between China and Estonia!

It was VERY hot and humid and the boys started to ask if we could leave before we expected it. Jack lasted about 30 minutes, Jed lasted the full hour of the US-Cuba match. All of the Chinese workers and volunteers were very friendly and helpful. They smile, welcome us in English (we respond in Mandarin) and offer any information we ask of them. One time, though, we asked how to get to our drop off point when we were driving by the venue and the worker gave us very good directions, to which our driver responded by asking if we can get in that way and the worker responded with, "oh, I don't know." Oh well. We managed to find our way.

Tonight we saw fencing. It was very exciting to see the medal matches. China won gold, so the mood was electric. We took many pictures and I will post some tomorrow after I wake up. It is now 11:20 and, knowing the baby will be up soon, I am off to bed.