China

Our guide TK isn't she cute.

Our hotel, quite nice.

After i got sick of Chinese food all we ate was pizza.

Lowering the flag Tienanmen Square. They raise the flag at sunrise everyday and lower it at sunset. They stop traffic and everything so the soldiers can march from the forbidden city to the square to do the flag.



Oh yeah Walmart is everywhere!




Olympic stuff.

Rickshaw ride.

Watch tower.

Drum tower. They used to wake everyone up in the morning with drums, before alarm clocks.

They have these exercise parks where old people go during the day to work out. They definitely did better than me. There was a 70 year old man doing full on splits.

In the temple of heaven.

All the old people who were around during the revolution come to sing the revolutionary songs. Interesting.

Temple of heaven.

Altar at the temple of heaven. The emperor used to come there every spring to pray.

Entrance to the temple of heaven.

In this park there are a bunch of people who come and paint poetry. The older ones do this in the old unstandardized Chinese.

Great wall!

Check one thing off my bucket list.

It's pretty amazing. And very steep.

We saw real pandas but the pictures of them aren't very good.

In the summer palace.

The mote around the forbidden city.

This used to be the tallest building in Beijing. Well at least the highest point. It's on top of a mountain.

Forbidden City

Chairman Mao.

Tienanmen Square.

Now that we've been back for almost 2 months there's my china post. It was pretty awesome! I'm very happy that we were able to go. A once in a lifetime experience. I could say tons more but i don't have the time and if i did this would go on forever! If you have any questions ask :)