{"id":7363,"date":"2018-02-08T11:19:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T15:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kjimages.com\/blog\/?p=7363"},"modified":"2018-02-16T02:23:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T06:23:10","slug":"i-made-it-to-pyeongchang-for-the-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjimages.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/08\/i-made-it-to-pyeongchang-for-the-winter-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Winter Olympics – Part 1 – I made it to PyeongChang for the Winter Olympics!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello everyone!\u00a0 Since a lot of folks requested it, I thought I would do another behind the scenes series of blog posts from the Olympics!\u00a0 If you find it useful or mildy entertaining, feel free to pass it on to your friends and family.<\/p>\n

I know many of you remember my luggage fiasco in Sochi 4 years ago, well this time I had a direct flight from Dallas to Seoul and it went VERY smoothly with all luggage intact!\u00a0 In fact, I was able to get on an exit row and even traded a flight attendant a USA Today Olympic pin in return for an Ice Cream Sundae normally given to just first class.\u00a0 As you can see below, she is proudly wearing that pin!\u00a0 I was also grateful that we didn’t fly into North Korean airspace. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Once I landed, I took the new bullet train from Seoul to Pyeongchang before catching a bus to the media village.\u00a0 These are a couple quick iphone photos, but I’ll post more media bus photos wih my real camera as each bus has its own theme and decor!\u00a0 Some even look like discos!(Oh, and so far, every driver has been on time or early, quite unlike Rio.)<\/p>\n

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As far as accommodations go, this one is pretty awesome! My three bedroom apartment is fully wired as a “smart” room where lights are preprogrammed and the floors are all heated!\u00a0 It is pretty cool to wake up and put your feet on the ground and then become instantly warm!\u00a0 Also, we had a fuse go out on the first night and called maintenance and they were in our rooms in about 5 minutes and fixed our issue!\u00a0 (Talk about great service!!)<\/p>\n

Here is my building as well as a few of the smart controls that we are still working on figuring out lol!(I mean even the hot water is controlled remotely!)\u00a0 There is still tape on the walls and on some of the kitchen tops as they will sell these units once we leave.<\/p>\n

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With regards to food, this place is awesome!\u00a0 There are coffee houses on every corner and the Korean cuisine in the media center is really good.\u00a0 I have to admit that some things are a little confusing and different (such as the spaghetti on the Sprite label and seaweed for breakfast, but overall it has been great!\u00a0 For those wondering, yes the norovirus has been addressed and there are signs up all over to alert folks.\u00a0 Also, hand sanitizers are everywhere!<\/p>\n

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I have also found a new obsession while over here – ROBOTS!!\u00a0 It’s like living in a sci-fi film at times as robots are everywhere!\u00a0 These guys do everything from vacuum the floors to project the daily schedules on the carpet.\u00a0 They even talk to you!\u00a0 If that isn’t enough, they have robot fish aquariums!!\u00a0 These robotic fish look and act so real, it’s insane!\u00a0 I SOOO need this as it’s the perfect way to have an aquarium in my book! (Check out the iphone video I took to see what I mean…)<\/p>\n

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