From start to finish

These big signs are located at various places throughout the city- by the expressway, in front of the International School, downtown, etc. They've been in place for more than two years and they counted down the days, hours, minutes and seconds to the Olympics. We saw one on our way home from the airport on the day we first arrived in China. Here you can see it was the last day before the games began. Nice air, right? It was not a cloudy or rainy day, that's the air pollution.

After the completion of the games, signs went up on buildings. We passed this one on our way home.