Amazing!!

Just back at 1 am from our second nite @ olympics.. !st nightwas cold & rainy, & we didn't really have a chance tolook around because ittook longerto get in & through securitythan we realized it would. but we saw lots of cool events, and the very sad dropped relay. Thr lead male runner, rodney martin, gave us his tix, so we were very sad for him.

2nite, in contrast, was a gorgous blue sky day,& we got to to the site early enough to just walk around & soak in the olympic spirit. So many people dressed up in their nat'l colors, all taking pictures of each other. Wegot some great pix showing how much nat'l pride there is hr. However, the chinese still have a lot to learn about capitalsm....very minimal food choices inside,so I hd some space-age, self-heating rice bowl that tasted like chinese baby food. Into the stadium just fte 7, to see the last evets of the decathalon, the women'slong jump, and the amazing 1500 m, and the thrilling high jump. Not sure if they showed this in the US, but the aussie won with 5.85M, then decided to keep going to see ifhe could break the olympic record, which he did on his3rd attempt.

the olympicgreen is scene is even more spectacular than on tv. Yes, the bids nest is a beauty queen with no bad angles, but the view FROm it is even better. I'll try to post a description tom; it is very late here & as you might be able to tell, this computer keyboard sucks. i feel like archy & mehitabl, if anyone gets that reference. toujours gay!