Taking a day off...to SEE OLYMPIC EVENTS! (part one, Beach Volleyball)

Monday was a full and fun day here. Started off bright and early to get on the subway to head to beach volleyball. We had tickets for the morning session, which included 5 matches--men and women. As soon as we walked in to the venue, it started raining...but we didn't care. We were watching volleyball! And we all got lovely yellow ponchos too.

The matches were pretty intense. No major blowouts...we saw the Chinese women (seeded #1) play Belgium (seeded #14) and Belgium won the first set! China pulled it together pretty fast and won the second, and then they had a tie-breaker.

China vs. Belgium

During technical timeouts these incredibly talented (read: sarcasm) dancing cheerleaders would come out and do some lovely dancing. We were far more entertained by the dancing fuwa.

One of the mens' matches: Latvia vs. Argentina