Closing Ceremonies

IBM managed to get everyone tickets for the Closing Ceremonies. And I was lucky enough to get one for Theresa too. It was downright cold though. This was one of the coldest days and the stadium was really a temporary construction which means that the wind went right through it. We actually snuck out a little early but it worked out for the best anyway, because the fireworks were actually outside the stadium and we were closer to them by leaving.

I thought it was kind of funny to see a covered wagon pulled by horses in Japan. This was during the part of the ceremonies where Salt Lake City makes their little presentation.

Of course, the closing ceremony is when they put out the torch. This is the torch on it's way out. I took lots of pictures of the torch but most of them didn't look very good. I had the great idea of a picture of Theresa with the torch in the background, but it didn't come out.

They gave everybody little battery powered lanterns and had us all turn them on at one point during the ceremonies. It looked pretty cool.

They had some strange ceremony with these flag-like things. They had some symbolic value but I can't remember what it was. In any case, there were hundreds of them and they had some choreographed dance they did with them.