Thanks to the lead of Shauna's friend Pat in Beijing, we picked up tickets via cosport.com to the Track and Field events in the Bird's Nest tonight! We paid approx $175 USD for the tix each and it's a pretty good deal since the face value is approx $120 USD and they're the equivalent of the 50 yard line in football, in the center section. Scalpers generally wanted $300 USD each for these types of seats so it was nice that it worked out this way to get them through an offical ticket agent.
Earlier in the day we visited the US Embassy in Beijing to add pages to our passport. It's always nice to visit an embassy for the right reasons because as US citizens, we really get our moneys worth on occasions we've had to get things done. While we waited approx 30 minutes for the pages to get added, it was interesting to people watch and why others came in. One 20 yearold guy wanted to marry a local Chinese girl, one blue collar guy was looking to apply for a job and another gal came in because she didn't have enough money to buy a ticket home. If we had the chance, we would've stayed longer but they don't let people loiter. Its also one of the rare chances we come across Marines and they never cease to amaze at how badass they are. A new US Embassy is being built and almost fully complete in Beijing, it'll be the second largest in the world for the US at 10 acres in size. I imagine that the Starbucks will also be opened in the new embassy as there is a Starbucks in the one we visited today. On a related note, China recently opened it's new embassy in Washington and is the largest one in the US.
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