let the games begin!

Yes, I know it's been quite a while since I've posted. I went to Florida and then out to Utah and Wyoming in the last couple of weeks and I spent last week recooperating. Don't worry, I will post about my adventures sooner or later, but I can't when I'm at work because I can't download my pictures onto my work computer. So, you'll have to settle for my thoughts so far on the 2008 Olympics being held in Beijing. I wasn't planning on really getting into the Olympics this year, because I never really have in the past (probably because I didn't get NBC before I graduated high school), but Loren suggested that we have an 'Olympics party'. We (Loren, Erica, Adam, and I) ate Chinese food and watched the opening ceremonies on Friday night - and now I'm quite the avid fan. The whole show was just visually stunning, to say the least, and I was quite impressed by it all. I loved the whole thing, but my favorite part was the 2008 drummers at the beginning - WOW!

And when the Chinese athletes came in, led by Yao Ming and the little nine-year-old boy who had saved some of his classmates after the earthquake in May, my eyes got a little watery.

And the whole torch-lighting part was awesome, too.

Unlike most people, I really enjoyed watching the March of the Nations. Loren and I were on the look out for some hot mens! We've decided we're definitely going to the next Olympics in hopes of finding our husbands - I think I can wait four years for that! Besides scouting out menfolks, I loved seeing all the different countries and the looks on the faces of the humble athletes. I thought it was very rude of the NBC commentators to make remarks like, "Oh, this country isn't good enough, they're not going to get any medals" and stuff like that. I'd like to see Bob Costas try to compete in any of these events - what a jerk! Just making it to the Olympics is such a great honor. It was cool trying to find any of the 16 athletes there who are past or present LSU students. We have two swimmers, twelve track and field athletes (Loren knows all of them!), and two women's basketball players (Sylvia Fowles is pictured below), so that's pretty cool. There are also 18 Mormons competing in the Olympics this year. Check it out at http://famousmormons.net.