yeah the ceremony was AWESOME , never seen better one. they said they trained years for the opening , and spent like 7 milliard dollars for every detail. i liked it when they opened the scroll and started drawing on it , and after that the big ball representing the earth\sun\other planets. there were people walking on the ball upside down lol
oh and the printing device , they showd how they used to print books. i thought all of the printing details were made from machines , but i was like WOW when they opened and hundreds of people pop out of the printing letters. i cant describe it with words , you gotta see it...
here are several clips about the ceremony , they cant get it all in one clip cuz it was 3 or more hours long..
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=beijing+2008+opening&search_type=&aq=f