Friday, August 15, 2008

We made to China, our luggage did not!

Woohoo we are finally here! We were scheduled to fly out of Denver on Aug 13th around 11:00a.m. so we could get on a flight in San Fransisco that left at 6:00. We had two flights cancel in Denver and after many hours waiting in and talking to Customer service we finally got rerouted LA and then to Beijing. We arrived about 4:30a.m. Beijing time Friday the 15th without our luggage! Our tickets were for the first session in the Bird's nest at 9:00. So... we showered and got ready to go. Luckily our tour company had given us shirts so we had a clean one to wear! We are about a 15 minute walk from the stadium. I put up a few pictures. The sun was shining and it was a beautiful day. In the first session we were in a suite with the mom and brother of heptathlete Jacqueline Johnson. It was fun to watch her compete with her family. We were unable to see the scoreboard that was in English, however, so it was a little difficult to see the results. We did figure out the Chinese symbol for USA so we could find them! The stadium was filled and the Chinese people love to support their athletes so it would be very loud when they were racing. We stayed late last night and saw the women's 10,000. What an exciting finish--new world record and Shalene Flanagan won the bronze. We also watched the men's shot put. Christan Cantwell won the silver and we saw our first medal ceremony. Now we are headed out to explore. We have tickets to the evening session. More later...hopefully our luggage will arrive today!

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