Sunday, July 13, 2008 This morning we got out the door a bit late at 10am because we felt the need (read: Jeannette felt the need) to reorganize our stuff so we knew who had what and where everything was. We started the day right away by walking to the Forbidden City and from there on to Tian’anman Square. We walked over to the Opera House for a closer look before taking the subway to the Temple of Heaven. Before we could go any further we hit food crisis and popped into an all locals supermarket and pointed at prepared foods from the deli counter for lunch. We got many many smiles as we sat at the nearby tables with the locals to eat straight from the plastic bags. Then we headed into the Temple of Heaven grounds. Josh was certain we needed to view the buildings in the opposite order than we were headed, so we walked through the side gardens first and took many photos Chinese birds and saw many different forms of Chinese exercises occurring. Then we saw the buildings in increasing order of grandness. We headed back to the subway, stopping first at the Pearl Market (decidedly not our scene), and went to Ritan Park with the Stone Boat Cafe where we had drinks and apps and saw a classmate of Josh’s, Pam! From there we subway-ed to Wangfujing shopping street and Donghuamen Night Market of crazy foods where we parted ways with Pam and returned to Wangfujing where we are having street cafe beers before a nice walk home.
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Amazing that in a city of millions you ran into one of your classmates! Glad you guys are off to a good start. Keep up the blogs. We wait with baited breath for each entry.
Love, Mom
hi j and j!
i love your blog. i also love beijing. i can’t wait for you to get back already. your cats also can’t wait for you to get back. i have the worst housing problem at san diego. 🙁 eek.
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Wow. That sounds like you guys did A LOT of stuff on your first day. Geez.
I really can’t wait to see all the pictures to go along with all these posts. It’s going to awesome.