Olympic Stadium

About 3 weeks ago, I had the privilege of hosting my first group of guests from the philippines! Unfortunately for them, with no prior experience, i did such a terrible job at being their tour guide! We had a reversal of roles when Dan was telling us all about the great history (very motivated now to read up more before the next group of guests come!) of Beijing as we drove by the streets. But granted that, it was so much fun hanging out with Janice and Dan, being in the company of family! :) I am already missing their company!

So on the very first night they were in town, they requested to be taken to the Bird nest. Here is a little tip when heading over to the olympic stadium. You should go well before 530pm to be able to enter the buildings (if you are lucky enough, on the right day, there would be performances put up for tourists), but stay long enough till the sun sets (right now during winter its around 5-ish?) to catch the light display of the bird nest and the water cube. A really pretty sight as you will see later.

Because time was not on our side, we were unable to enter the bird nest and water cube. We could only linger outside in the billowing winds and appreciate the structures standing about 500m away from them. And because it was Janice and Dan's first time in a really cold country (unlucky for them, that was the first day beijing's temperature plummeted overnight), we were out of the place under an hour. They waved the white flag even before visiting the olympic village (will have to go back there again probably when jas or jo is here)! Really a pity! But i think they were satisfied enough that they were able to catch the bird nest and water cube out of the tv set!

The Birdie Nest

The Watering Cube