This was my first opening ceromonies. The opening ceremonies were amazing, but really cold! To help keep us warm, they had warming centers where you could stand in a room just to warm up. They also had a bag of gifts on your chair. This back included a hat, a seat warmer, a pen, a blanket, and a toy to be used sometime during the ceremony. Just like any event large event with few ingress and egress routes, logistics were the biggest challenge. The PyeongChang Olympic Park venue is not near the main city, so we needed taxis or busses. Then there are lines to get to parking. Once you park, you need to then take a shuttle to venue area. Once you get there they turned a small town into a winter wonderland. It was cold, but beautiful. I felt like I was watching an event at the Kennedy center. General comments from other spectators was that the event didn’t have the pop of other openings. However, I don’t know that it needed a pop.
