The opening ceremonies for the Olympics is tomorrow. It is one of my favorite things to watch every four years. The Winter Olympics are really cool too, but there is just something special about the Summer Olympics. The sprinters rivalry between Tyson Gay and Usain Bolt, the Michael Phelps saga and winning a record eight gold medals, watching the Dream Team pull off another big win for the USA, or dominance of the Kerri Walsh/Misty May-Treanor dynasty. Maybe we will see the next Carl Lewis or Jesse Owens this year. I take great pride in how well our country does at these events. Maybe another year of women's soccer taking the gold. There are so many twists and turns and close calls. So much real life drama. Exhilaration of triumph and agony of defeat. I love this time of year. My DVR is going to be jam packed with sporting events over the next few weeks. My favorite sporting events have to be track and field. The sprints and relays. Even the Decathlon is totally awesome and this year we have two possible medal candidates. Imagine being that good at those many different events and being able to put them all together in one competition. No room for slip ups or mistakes. Every inch and every second mean so much. Awesome time.
There is only one downfall to this years Olympics. It is in Great Britain, which made it the best opportunity for Raina and I to make it out there and enjoy the festivities. They speak the same language there, sort of, and it is fairly easy to get to, in comparison to other countries. It is just really stinking expensive, and it didn't fit into our plans to save for a home. Both of us are pretty bummed out about it. Just means that we need to save for another Olympic vacation in the future, or hope the games come back to the United States. We both had an awesome experience of being at the Atlanta Olympics and have been wanting to go back ever since. Money and timing have always been a problem. We will get there one of these days. You can probably expect me to be talking a lot about these games over the next couple of weeks. I hope you enjoy them just as much as I do.
This Day In History: 1775
The U.S. postal system is established by the 2nd Continental Congress, with Benjamin Franklin as its first Postmaster General.
Born This Day: 1943
Mick Jagger - English rock singer in The Rolling Stones.
"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."
-Aldous Huxley
Even Olympic trial swimmers have beards.
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