US vs Canada photos

One of our regular restaurants, BifengTang has Paige enjoying an orange float. Storey's drink of choice is a mango slushy with huge chunks of mango on top.The sight when we exit the subway on our way to the stadium. You can see the thickness of the air in most of these shots. It is so humid it feels as though we are living in the wet cloud as it builds to release.
One of the images on the sidewalk. Ridley makes fun of my love of these!
A view of the stadium. There are green, manicured parks everywhere. These Olympic sports symbols light up at night along the fence.
As we head up to the main stadium plaza where the "yummy" food concessions are. (We only got drinks this time!)
It started raining, thundering and lightning 10 minutes into the game. Hard to tell from the photo how hard it was raining. They played another 10 minutes, in the midst of unbelievable lightning and rain before the game was suspended. The IOC in Beijing was making all the rulings for the game, so 1/2 an hour later when all was clear, they still weren't playing. The game started at 6 but did not restart until 8pm.
On the plaza, one of the Olympic characters out and about. The line for photographs with this cutie was filled with adults, not children. So China!
These statues are around the whole plaza. They are beautiful.

Rain, rain, rain.
She is barely visible in this shot, but Paige took a picture of Hope Solo, the goalie who is her idol. She is standing right in front of the goalie circle, but is in light blue, disguising her against the grass. The game was tied at the end and went into two 15 minute overtimes. The US got a goal in the first 15 minutes, and were able to defend a heavily attacked goal in the second 15 minutes to win 2 - 1. Very exciting. Ridley and Storey left at half - time because Storey was hungry. We had not eaten dinner since it was an early game. The 90 minute game that took 4 hours! Paige and I made our way back to the subway, walking forever as many of the subway exits were already closed since it was past 10 pm. When we finally go to our lane at about 10:30, we found that our lane was all locked up. We had never been out that late. We now know we need a code to get into the gate. Our little gatekeepers house had a red light on, meaning he was in bed for the night. I found a doorbell, and after a few moments he emerged, pj bottoms, no shirt, umbrella and very sleepy. By that time there were 6 of us needing to get in. Always an adventure here!
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