I got a ticket to the Closing Ceremony through the lottery the Beijing Organizing Committee provided for residents of China. However, on the day of I was feeling sick and decided to let Justin have the ticket. There was supposed to be a very strict system in place for linking people's identity with the ticket. I had to turn in passport photos, copies of my documentation, etc. when I went to pick the ticket up. However, we had heard from friends "in the know" that the system had not worked and that it was just a way to try and control dissenters and protesters from getting a ticket. When Justin got to the security area and they scanned his ticket, however, a picture of my face came up. He ended up talking his way in and really enjoying the ceremony. Here are his pictures:
Let's play "Where's Yao Ming?"
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