Going to China!

Mike and I had a semi-unexpected surprise today. A lady whose eyes he examined three years ago has rekindled the invitation to stay at her house in Beijing for the Olympics. We haven't kept in touch with her very well in the last three years, in fact I think the last email Mike sent her was probably to announce that Isaac was born.

Today she said they are waiting for us, her husband is a oil exec working in China and they have a house big enough to accommodate us and friends. So we quickly looked up tickets with our skymiles and discovered that for a mere 60,000 miles we can go to China, with free accomodations for the 2008 Olympics.

Are we stoked?? ABSOLUTELY! It's not everyday you get a chance like that, and amidst the selling of our house, and other transitions we are going to the Olympics. It has been a huge dream of ours. We've reserved our tickets and are working on paperwork to turn into the trusty Travel Brokers in SLC to get our visas. We leave in less than 3 weeks. We can't believe we're going to watch our buddies play and cheer for Brazil first, USA second(wink wink).

Mike has already left a message for our friend Ryan Millar on the US indoor volleyball team, and we're trying to get a hold of another buddy Jake Gibb, who plays outdoor volleyball and has qualified as the second USA team for Beijing. So I guess we need to get out the language cd's and start learning a few words in Chinese.