The Olympics!
The Olympic games are on! Woo hoo! We had Natalie and Sonny over on Friday to watch the opening ceremony, and the show just about blew our minds. Good job, China! Sonny felt bad for London, having to follow that show. He suggested that maybe they pass to Greenland. LOL.
We were riveted watching swimming and gymnastics last night. The human interest stories are too fascinating to be true; like the 33-year old gymnast competing for Germany, the country where her young son was treated for, and saved from, leukemia, or Laure Manaudou and the Italian love triangle.
But the best part of these games so far was definitely the men’s 4 x 100-meter freestyle race. During the final 50 meters, I was standing up, jumping up and down screaming, “Go! Go! Go!!!” We were jubilant when they won, high-fiving each other, shouting insults at the defeated, smack-talking French on TV. When I came to work this morning, I made sure to rub it in with the one french guy I know, Raoul. His response: “Shut up.” Oh, it’s on. Go USA!
3 comments for The Olympics!:
rebecca says:
USA! USA! USA!
Janko says:
Why can’t we comment on every entry? I want to say: Yeah, Olympics!!! They help me procrastinate writing my thesis!! And Germany is ranked 3rd now! Put in the ratio of nr. of inhabitant of a country and the nr. of gold medals won we are soooooooo ahead! And our beach volleyball girls (Pohl/Rau) are way cuter than yours (Branagh/that other guy)!!!
kristen says:
we were pretty blown away with the opening ceremonies too. it seems that each olympics it gets better and better! i’m sad that swimming is over…it’s my fav to watch.