Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Opening Ceremony

We arrived back from Mudanjiang on 08.08.2008. Though we slept better on way back than on way there, we were still quite tired from the train ride. Met a friend of Grace from high school on the train, in fact next cabin to us. She has a 9 yr old daughter so Kristine and Kimberley were well entertained on the train.
Managed to watch the first hour of the ceremony at home, but Grace and I crashed out at 930pm local time when the national teams started marching into the stadium. Did catch up with the replays the next morning.
A dear friend of ours knew someone with tickets to the finals. I asked our friend to book 4 tickets for us to Mens Hockey final thining that wouldnt be a popular event for the local Olympics fans. The official price per ticket is RMB80, and I thought I might have to pay maybe, 3-5 times that, which was okay, but the asking price turned out to be RMB1500. Thats RMB6000 for the family. A 47inch LCD TV screen costs RMB10,000, so we thought it maybe a wiser investment to buy a big TV...

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