Saturday Aug 16

While Benn and Davis and I enjoyed some track and field Marsha and Addie saw Venus and Serena play a doubles match. Addie said she saw tennis on Jupitor. Where does she get her sense of humor?
There is, as always, a little more to that story. Having become more savvy in a weeks time, we chose to use the bus and subway system to get to the Olympic Green. It's pretty much like New York except with characters; number 60 bus to the Pearl Market, number 10 train to the one that starts with a fishing lure, change to number 5 and go to the tassled pitch fork one, change to number eight and expect the Olympic Green stop to be clearly marked. On the way home reverse that but accidently exit the subway as far as possible from the bus stop, watch the last number 60 drive away in the distance and walk back to the hotel from the Pearl Market. Good plan.It worked out just that way.
Davis had the added bonus of helping carry a lady in a wheelchair down a long flight of stairs in the subway. Why? If you were a lady in a wheel chair sitting at the tope of a long imposing flight of stairs surrounded by 140 pound helpful chinese guys, and Davis walked by, what would you do? She yelled in Chinese, "Hey BOO! Grab these handles!" Those might not have been her exact words but Davis understood.
I offerred an Olympic Canoe and Kayak pin to a little Chinese girl who turned out to be a little Chinese girl from San Jose, Cal. Her mother turned out to speak English much like a Chinese woman from San Jose. I'm not saying we needed her help to change trains at fishing lure but I should say it was an Olympic pin well given.
When we finally met Benn at the Green he told us his George Bush story. It's merely coincidence that I've mentioned GW in two consecutive blogs. He is honestly not an insider like Cathy, Nathan, Scotty P, or the Laurens. And unless there is some national secret unknown to me, he is not MOO. He is the president of the US though and used that loop hole to visit with Olympians. If you know Benn it will come as no surprise that when the photo of W and the Canoe Kayak Team was taken Benn "somehow" was front and center. As the President started moving into position Benn put an arm around his W-ness, pulled him in close and said something like jump right in here big guy. Sotty P, being of like mind, sharing Benn's non-republican political views, and siezing the opportunity for a moment of great irony, put an arm around from the other side. I can't wait to see the actual photo with bleached and black haired Scotty and black nailed Benn providing the V and X for George's W. I am typimg this with my thumbs at 30 some thousand feet. The Frakers are on our way home from the Olympics, our biggest adventure so far. So far.