[doydie]

I'm exhaustd watching the opening ceremony for 4.5 hours but it was wonderful. I even enjoy watching the looooong parade of nations. I think the most touching thing was the tall basketball from China who was their flag bearer. When China had that bad earthquake that killed 70,000 people, you know most of them were children. This one little 7 year old boy was rescued out of the rubble and he had to immediately started trying to find others. He said that he was a leader in his class and a hall monitor so it was his duty to help. Anyway, they had him walk along this big tall 7.5 foot basketball plaeyer the whole way.

I felt sorry for the swimmers. They are one of the first competitions tomorrow so most of them did not march in tonight. NBC has the Olympics on tomorrow from 9 AM to 5 PM then again at 7 PM!

I like waht Tom Brokaw said tonight. He said that of all the nations represented in the Olimpics only a very small percentage of them will go home with any medal so tonights ceremony is their 'time on the pedestal' for them. It's their glory moment.