Eclipse in China

This has not been a good 2008 year for China. First they had heavy snowstorms on the Chinese New Year. As if that wasn't bad enough, they had the deadliest earthquake in a generation and to top it off, river flooding. Then at the Olympic sailing site, they had a huge algae bloom which caused a great many Chinese to hint online about curses on their country. Well finally they had something to celebrate. After an Olympic year of freakish natural disasters, crowds of Chinese watched a total solar eclipse along the country's ancient Silk Road on Friday. this was one week before the start of the Summer Games in Beijing. Needless to say, they were celebrating this act of nature. What a happy event just before the Olympics.