Tonight we are heading to Beijing on an overnight Z-train from Shanghai. The train is supposed to be super posh & some compare it to a five star hotel (we aren’t holding our breath). We’ll miss the Olympic Opening Ceremony -- wasn’t very high priority for us to buy uber-expensive tickets or be jammed outside the stadium to watch fireworks with 20 million strangers.
We’re pretty excited about experiencing the opening weekend. Unfortunately, we don’t have game tickets yet. Paying scalped ticket pricing of US $400/ticket for one swimming event seemed a bit ridiculous. So we’re going to see how in person scalping goes, per Nabeel & Lila’s learning at the Nagano Olympics. Karl spent the morning learning/practicing his Olympic ticket buying phrases in his Chinese language class! [Phrase of the day: Women xiang yao liang zhang tiao shui de piao; or those mandarin challenged -> we would like to buy two tickets to diving] We do think we’ll get rowing tickets Saturday afternoon from an Intel friend. We’re returning to Shanghai late Sunday.
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Thanks for your numerous July updates. Glad to hear you are feeling like Shanghai is now home. :)
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