Saturday, August 9, 2008

The Opening Ceremonies -- Our Favorite Highlights


Some pictures to depict our favorites from last night:


1. The amazing light-drummers counting down the start of the ceremony.


2. The footprint fireworks leading to the stadium.


3. The huge LCD screens on the floor "scroll" and the top of the Birds Nest stadium.


4. 15,000 different non-repeating performers


5. The non-computerized, perfectly synchronized boxes


6. All of the beautiful and unique costumes


7. The glow-in-the-dark suits



8. The commentators explaining the "clear" yet confusing symbolism.


9. The runners on the paper-lantern globe.


10. Trying to figure out where the heck these countries are that I've never heard of.
(Mauritius vs. Mauritania?)

11. The stamped colored footprints of the athletes.


12. The torch



13. The OLYMPICS!!!!


Links to more awesome pictures:
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1 comment:

The Boyter's said...

Hey Janice! How have you been? Your blog is cute, it's always fun to have more friends with blogs :)