There was a lot in the news about the Olympic Flame. About how during the Opening Ceremony the 4th leg didn't go up, how the real one was behind an ugly chain-link fence, only VIPs were allowed in the area immediately near it, it was elitist, the fence was far away from the flame, etc. I guess the idea behind the fence was that it was there to keep out protesters, terrorists, and everyday hooligans. Unfortunately, it also then kept out The People and the People were not happy. It was a sore spot for the city and they were struggling to fix the problem. First, they moved the fence a lot closer to the flame. Second made a small gap in the fence so that people could at least take a picture without the fencing.
Then they opened up a rooftop viewing platform so that you could get a picture with it and not have the fence in it at all. Finally they replaced the lower level of the fence with plexiglass, so that the kids could see and you could get a good picture without having to stand in line for the rooftop view.
Dina and I waited till they had the platform up and running to go see the flame and we were lucky once again that when we got there it was an acceptable wait time of half and hour (at various times during the week, it was said some people had to wait up to 2 hours). It was definitely worth the wait! The Olympic flame was just beautiful!
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