We’ve been to the Olympic Village three times now, once in the (hazy) daytime, once at night, and once to meet up with Dr. Gant. It’s pretty easy to get to the Olympic Village from where we’re staying in Beijing – maybe about 25 minutes on the subway, changing trains twice. The Olympic Village is on subway line 8, which was built specifically for it. Remember that the 2008 Olympics were on 08.08.08? Eight is a very auspicious number in China 
We ran into this kid and our friend asked his mom and him if we could be in a picture with him, since that’s our university – too bad the colors aren’t quite right 
"Michigan Player"
The Olympic Village has many buildings, but the main ones we saw were the Bird’s Nest (National Stadium) and the Water Cube (National Natatorium). We paid to enter the Bird’s Nest and walk around and take pictures. It seemed to be currently used for a youth soccer league – I must say, I think it’d be sooo awesome if I could have played in an Olympic stadium when I played youth soccer! There was some sort of dancing/ceremony going on while we were there, so we went over to watch. We saw three different types of dancing, including some traditional Uyguhr dancing. I took a video, but I’m not sure if it all uploaded.
Morgan and Carrie at the Water Cube!
The Olympic Village was also really pretty at night. There’s a park at the far end, with a nice lake and some small paddle boats that can be checked out, but we didn’t try that the day we went over there. We did come across a guy writing traditional Chinese words and phrases on a sidewalk. He asked us if we had anything we’d like him to write, so I asked for my name. He wrote “Kai-li”.
Kai and Li, which together make the sound of my name (kind of)
