This was taken last year when I went up to Beijing to visit my folks who were having an R&R break from their job in Mongolia, I am sure it looks a little different now as all the construction will be finished and maybe they even planted grass around the place to make it look nice. According to reports on the BBC, the air quality is terrible. We have heard that they are going to shut down all the factories and building sites in the entire area starting right about now.  So upwards of 300 million people are going to be out of work for the next two months, WOW. Only in China.

Well one thing to say, I am quite sad that I am not going to be able to attend the opening ceremonies of the games, it will be awesome, out of this world, spectacuar. The Chinese are pulling out all stops to impress the world and they are going to do it.