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On Saturday, we were lucky enough to be offered Baseball tickets (at face value) to the USA-Canada game.

At first, it looked as if Canada would beat the U.S., with a score of 0-4.  But, they must have forgotten they were playing a game because they let the U.S. score 5 runs to win the game 5-4.

For more photos, check out my flickr set.

Melanie and I went with some friends (C, H, B, and J) to Friday’s evening session of Women’s Beach Volleyball.  It was fantastic!

The picture above is from the China v Cuba match.  China was quite good (and they beat Cuba, too!).

We were lucky to all get tickets to this same event as both H and I applied using our own accounts for the tickets during round 1 of ticket sales way back in August of last year. (or whenever it was)  Sure, we weren’t sitting next to each other, but we were close enough – for the later matches, we were able to consolidate.

We missed most of the first match (Germany v Austria) because H “couldn’t find a taxi”, but we made it in time for China v Cuba, so it was fine.

For more pictures, go to my flickr site.

On the evening of Thursday, August 14, Melanie and I went to a Boxing match, round of 16 Welter and Light Welter bouts.  Many thanks to my old friend Mike (who was supposed to visit Beijing during the Olympics, but unfortunately could not)  gave me his tickets (also to Rowing).

I’ve never seen boxing in real life before, so it was certainly interesting.  Some of the bouts were a bit slow – lots of hugging and dancing around.  Some of them, however, were quite exciting where one boxer it seemed would unleash a deadly series of punches – not really, but almost.

Thanks again, Mike!

See my photos on flickr.

Air not so clean with 1 day to go, eh?

Ok, I only took 3 photos… Here they are (click on them to see them in flickr)

Ray requested I post some photos I have taken with the N82.  Well, here are some, but go ahead and check out my flickr site for all photos tagged “N82″.  There aren’t many yet, but I intend on changing that!

Oh, and it seems that Shozu is getting much better at geotagging the photos automatically!

Over the weekend I finally got around to uploading my photos from Chicago and Seattle (that I took in October of this year.)

I was lazy and didn’t put any captions, but pictures speak a thousand words, right?

Chicago

Seattle

Enjoy. I’ve got Xiamen photos to upload at some point…

This trip to the U.S. is almost over.  It is Saturday night; I return to Beijing on Tuesday (flight out Tuesday morning, arrive in Beijing on Wednesday evening).

I have uploaded 3 sets of photos just now:

• Gartner Symposium ITxpo – Orlando, FL
• Outsource World New York – NYC
• Wine Tasting in the Texas Hill Country

Enjoy!

Melanie and I went to the Black Eyed Peas concert last night. It was held in the Beijing Exhibition Theater, way the f on the west side of the city. The venue only holds between 2 and 3 thousand people, so I am not sure how thye made money on it.  The show lasted about 1.5 hours, which is a bit short, but decent.

More pictures are here.

I am currently (finally) transfering my motorbike (CJ750) photos over to Flickr, and modifying the links on my Motorbike page work. I just uploaded the photos I took way back in the summer of 2004 at the Guinness Book of World Records attempt at the most number of side car motorbikes together. Enjoy.