11 days left! And still no tickets :-(

This morning I went with Kimberly in the last and final attempt to score some tickets for the Olympic Games. Well...that was something worth writing about...

The tickets were going supposedly going on sale on the Friday 25th from 9 am-6 pm. So we thought, it's probably going to be really crowded, so let us go 'early'. We woke up at 5:30, and were there about 6:20. By the time we were almost there we asked the driver if he knew where the exact location was of the ticketing office. (we never mentioned it to him before, we just told us drive us to the olympic venue)

And then he started to laugh, and told us 'goodluck' there are 10 thousands (!) of people there already queuing up since two days (!) We thought, there are 250.000 thousand tickets left, so we still might have a chance, we need to check it out now that we are here anyway. We walked for about 20 minutes through a crowded of pushing and shoving (with sweaty arms mind you ieuw!) with on the left side teenage soldiers that supposedly were not allowed to move their heads, and on the right hand side two rocket launchers (yes they made sure we would be able to see them)
By the time we managed to find some what that looked like a queue, we just started to follow the crowd and started to queue. I was very sceptical though, it didn't seem that we were queuing towards 'the ticketing box' so I went around and ask.

Guess what - apparently there is an special area for the queue and where we were standing was not the official queue. And what the unofficial queue's posibilities were - nobody knew. (incl. the police)

Check out the news item and pictures here and here

So after about 20 mins of staring in the crowd, we decided to just give it up. I sort of felt that this is not a good position to be in - people not having enough sleep (because they camped out there for like 1/2 days), hot, muggy, nobody knew what the hell was going on, and police officers everywhere just standing around in a long straight line. And just a lot and lot of people everywhere desperately trying to get into the 'official' olympic queue.

Its quite sad being in Beijing during the Olympics without tickets! I'm hoping to make a lot of friends with tickets the coming days, and hoping to score some kind of ticket somewhere, anything...