BASKETBALL: GO USA!!!

Xiao is our hero tonight. He’s a former Intel colleague who went off for the sexier job with the NBA. He also got us tickets to the pre-Olympics exhibition basketball game: Team USA vs. Australia. We had box seats and even ran into a couple of Karl’s customers from Dell. Getting to the game was quite an experience! Driver Shen took us down 2 roads that were blocked off completely unless you had tickets in hand. No way could we pass thru the police barricade. Alas! Driver Shen is extremely resourceful. He found the road that got us around the mess to exactly where we needed to be. We had SO much fun watching professional players literally "wow" the audience with their speed, resilience, and dunks. The Australians weren’t bad either. Go USA! (ok, we’re feeling oddly patriotic right now)