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On our way to Yin bar at 6 pm. Yin bar is off Chang’an Road, where the Forbidden City and Tiananmen are located, but conveniently, the entire road was closed, as was the 2nd Ring road. We got out of our cab here and decided to walk to the subway. You will notice the caravan of white vans on the other side of the road driving the wrong way. Gotta love a totalitarian government that puts its needs before its citizens.
Walking to the subway. This 15 foot bridge had 10 policeman guarding it. The road it was next to was closed, so there were nor cars. What were they gaurding? 3) The subway at 6 pm on a Friday evening, normally the busiest subway time, is eerily empty. 4) Olympic “volunteers” man the streets at 5o ft. intervals. I don’t really know what they are volunteering to do, because they refused to help me take a picture. I guess there only job description is to stand on the street and wear an armband.
There was a lot of Olympic spirit on the streets. These girls in a van shout to us and wave flags. We responds with a cheery “Happy Olympics!” 6) This Chinese man loves the Olympics. 7) We take a picture with him, no thanks to the “volunteer” on the side of the street who refused to take the picture for me. We got a fellow Olympics lover to help us.
At Yin Bar, We enjoy our free champagne. Although the TV screens were as not as big as we would have liked, we did get to meet the designer of the Olympic Medals, and the designer of the Olympic torch. We even got to take a picture with the torch!
After staying at Yin for an hour, we decided to go to another party at our friend’s house, who had a projector and a ten foot screen. American colors and flags were everywhere, as the party consisted of mostly Americans, with three Canadians, two Irish, and two Inner Mongolians in the mix. When the American team marched out onto the field, we cranked up an American song extremely loud and simply went crazy. Dancing, chanting, and yells of “America, F*** yeah!” filled the air for a good 5 minutes.

Intermittent Boos could also be heard whenever the camera panned to our 所谓 president. But immediately reverted back to cheering when the camera panned back to the athletes. I believe Putin was also heavily booed for some reason. When the Chinese team came on, we started chanting “Inner Mongolia, Let’s Go,” to the delight of our two inner Mongolian friends. The Candadians and the Irish did their best to cheer with the same enthusiam as the Americans, but to no avail.