Well, I can’t say that seeing the Panda Bears was a fun experience. That day Beijing was as hot and muggy as any summer day in NYC. And it didn’t see like the Pandas were happy with the weather either.…
VISITING THE PANDAS
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AH, BACK TO NORMAL. WELL, SORT OF.
Well, we’re back and our first full day we decided to pick up Devon from his school. We headed for the park and let him run around in the sprinklers. What a great thing to see, kids running and screaming,…
WE HAD ONE MORE ADVENTURE AS WE LEFT OUR SHANGHAI HOTEL FOR THE AIR PORT
Sometimes a story is best told from the end and then moving back in time before pulling the tale around so that it makes a full circle. Does that makes sence? Well to be more clear we’re home. But before…
TO BLOG OR NOT TO BLOG IN CHINA
Well, I cannot get into my blog and when I had one of the women who works in this internet/business room in our hotel she translated for me what I had not been able to understand for at least four…
I’M HAVING A GREAT DEAL OF TROUBLE WITH THIS BLOGGING THING
AS IT TURNS OUT MY BLOGGING DAYS ARE PROBABLY OVER UNTIL I CAN GET SOME ASSISTANCE. ALL OOF THE BLOGGING INSTRUCTIONS ARE IN CHINESE AND THOUGH I’VE BEEN ABLE TO GET SOME STUFF DONE, FOR THE MOST PART THIS HAS…
HOUTONG
On our first day here before the tour started we walked around an old district of BeiJing. I’m now sure what the area was called but it was near the Antique Market.The houses were very assembled in something akin to…
THE FORBIDDEN CITY
The entrance to The Frbidden City is just acorss the large roadway that surrowds Tian’anmen Square. Chairman Mao’s portrait sits atop the enormous gate to this huge place. The interesting thing about this site is how immense it is. I…
CHERRY VENDERS
I cannot keep up with all the things that we are doing. So, I’ll be giving a view of what we are seeing and doing as I have time. The potograph above is a common sight this time of the…
TIAN’ANMEN SQUARE
Yesterday we had gotten our first view of Tian’anmen Square from a taxi window as we drove passed. There were thousands of people crowding together. It was late in the afternoon and the sky was threatening rain. So when our…
SINGING MOUNTAIN
Probably the most difficult for me to explain is our next stop at the Singing Mountain Park that overlooks the Forbidden City. As we stepped through the entrance we immediately heard a large group of people singing. Their voices rising…