The winter olymmpics in Russia officially opened last night (in real time it was yesterday morning) to a dream like staged sequence that looked like Cirque du soleil vs Disneyland. Although I really don't get excited about the opening ceremonies, there were two things that struck a chord. Israel came out followed by Iran...a kind of wierd statement of why these games exist. I wonder if they sat next to each other in the stands.

The other was the overhead shot of each team entering the stadium in the middle of a satellite photo of their country. That was a nice touch.

I didn't even see the whole thing, I fell asleep. Did you enjoy the pagentry ala Russian/Hollywood style?