Since today (Friday) is the opening ceremonies for the 2008 Olympics, I thought I’d let Ryan do another guest post on his impressions of the Olympics in China (since he’s already seen them). Here’s what he says:<\/p>\n
We’ve had a little change of plans, and instead of going from China back 3 different hotels (and 4 different rooms!) in 4 nights — Hong Kong, The drivers we’ve had (which have all been employees of partner companies, So after the ferry, Kordon and I met with the employee of our contract If I’d been on the Amazing Race, at that point, I would’ve gotten a Our driver tonight spoke *NO* english, so it was somewhat of an awkward After checking into the hotel, Kordon and I went downstairs to the The Olympic Opening Ceremonies in China are:<\/p>\n 1. Mandatory… This note was in my room here: “Dear Guest: We maybe 2. Awesome! I’ve been watching them, and the opening presentation 3. Psychedelic. I’m sure if I were the drug-enhancing type, that these 4. Expensive. You can tell from the opening ceremonies that they’ve Very cool that I get to see it 14 hours before the US…<\/em><\/p>\n Thanks, Ryan! We’ll watch it tonight, but we appreciate your preview. We love you and miss you and hope you get to see more interesting things before you come home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since today (Friday) is the opening ceremonies for the 2008 Olympics, I thought I’d let Ryan do another guest post on his impressions of the Olympics in China (since he’s already seen them). Here’s what he says: We’ve had a little change of plans, and instead of going from China back to Hong Kong tonight, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":933,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions\/933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nto Hong Kong tonight, we took the ferry from Zhuhai to Shenzhen, where our
\ncontract manufacturer is. We’re staying in Shenzhen tonight, and we’re
\ngoing to visit them tomorrow morning, then return to Hong Kong for
\ntomorrow night’s hotel.<\/p>\n
\nZhuhai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong… It’s been quite a trip.<\/p>\n
\nexcept for a single taxi in Macao) all drive like NYC taxi cab drivers,
\nbut with many more pedestrians and bicyclists and motorcyclists to
\npossibly hit.<\/p>\n
\nmanufacturer who had been sent to the ferry port to pick us up and take us
\nto the hotel, and the ‘company car’ wouldn’t start. He checked fuses,
\ntried putting it in gear, pushing it, etc. for a good 20 minutes.<\/p>\n
\nreplacement car, since due to no fault of my own, that one was going
\nnowhere! Our driver then got a screwdriver, put the floor mats on the
\nground, scooted under the car, and 10-15 minutes later, it started up
\n(while he was still under it! — I’m not sure what he did to fix it, but
\ncool! He fixed it!).<\/p>\n
\nride. He drove us for about an hour to get to the hotel, which is right
\nby their factory.<\/p>\n
\nrestaurant to get some food. Note for the future: Service isn’t the best
\nwhen you’re in a country that’s hosting the Olympics, 20 minutes before
\nthe said Olympics are about to start, in a restaurant with a big TV. The
\nwait staff were all out watching the ceremonies, and Kordon and I didn’t
\nget our food until well into the ceremonies.<\/p>\n
\nfail to get all the international TV signal during the date 6th
\nAugust-10th August for the TV program limit by the government. We regret
\nto bring inconvenience into your stay and thank you very much for your
\nunderstanding and cooperation”. You can’t get any other programs on the
\nTV, but there’s about 10 stations broadcasting the Olympic opening
\nceremonies, none in English…<\/p>\n
\n(before the countries present) is incredible! I’m taping it at home, so I
\ncan see it on the big-screen TV, but even with the Chinese announcers,
\nit’s pretty dang cool.<\/p>\n
\nopening ceremonies would be among the best to watch ‘a bit enhanced’.<\/p>\n
\nspent a lot on the games, I read somewhere that it was in the 10’s of
\n*BILLIONS* of dollars, both on infrastructure (roads, etc.) as well as on
\nthe stadium, opening ceremonies, venues, etc.<\/p>\n