Joy and I got up at the crack of dawn a few days ago because we heard rumors that the Olympic torch would be coming through town. I say rumors b/c everytime I asked my friends when and where the event was gonna be taking place I got different answers. :) So we finally heard from a classmate, who heard from a friend, who happened to catch the 5 o'clock news, a place and a time for when the torch would be passing by. We got up early and headed down to a big park in town that we heard would be the ending place for the relay in our city. We saw people lining the roads all the way until the bus stop right in front of the park, so we knew we'd picked the right spot. But as we made our way through the crowd attempting to get into the park we ran into to these people:
They wouldn't exactly just let us by, so we started following a group of people wearing yellow shirts who we noticed were getting into the park one by one. We thought we could perhaps make friends with them and get in without any problems. But just as Joy ducked to go under the police tape, they noticed we didn't really fit in with the crowd, and looked at us like we were crazy for trying to. So we waited patiently for about 4 hours waiting to catch a glimpse of the torch. 
I couldn't believe how many people were there, young and old alike.
This lil girl really liked my hair, she kept grabbing handfuls of it and laughing.
So we waited, and waited...and waited some more!
Lots of cars going by...but NO torch!
They wouldn't exactly just let us by, so we started following a group of people wearing yellow shirts who we noticed were getting into the park one by one. We thought we could perhaps make friends with them and get in without any problems. But just as Joy ducked to go under the police tape, they noticed we didn't really fit in with the crowd, and looked at us like we were crazy for trying to. So we waited patiently for about 4 hours waiting to catch a glimpse of the torch. I couldn't believe how many people were there, young and old alike. This lil girl really liked my hair, she kept grabbing handfuls of it and laughing. So we waited, and waited...and waited some more!And we finally got to see this:
Lots of cars going by...but NO torch!
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