Olympic Torch
Posted by Linus Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:13:00 GMT
Today the team took a trip to go see the Olympic torch! We really wanted to take advantage of the benefits of living in the city.
We arrived at the planned route at the right time but unfortunately no one was there. The only people to be found were pro-China demonstrators on one side and China protestors on the other. Though it was quite an event, after 20 minutes or so we realized there was no way the torch would ever come through where we were. In addition the live blog feed we received from our phones said the torch had gone “missing” in a warehouse near the ballpark. Deject we headed back to the office.
To make matters worse, we took a wrong turn on the way back, which landed us in traffic gridlock. Curious as to why a usually free flowing street was suddenly at a standstill we looked around and saw the street in front of us had been closed. Well, we all put two and two together, parked the car in a random lot, and immediately ran towards the street closure.
It was a fortunate coincidence that we just happened to bump into the new path of the torch! Here are some pictures:
