Beijing!

Over Thanksgiving, 2007, our friend Nicole came for a visit.  We traveled to Beijing for a weekend and ate delicious food, saw the Forbidden City and several temples, climbed the Great Wall and shopped till we dropped.

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Quanjude Roast Duck     Forbidden City, Beijing     Tiananmen Square     Mao Zedong     Tea     The Amazing Great Wall of China!     Bird's Nest Stadium    

Good luck Olympians...     Yun Minjun     Lama Temple     Flying Pigeon Bicycles

 

Eric orders at Quanjude Duck Restaurant

Roasting the duck

Scorpion snack

Nicole is not fond of scorpion

Chinese parking lot

umm...yikes!

Guard at the Forbidden City

Inside the walls of the Forbidden City

The Chairman

Tiananmen Square

Lao She Tea and Opera House

Tea Ceremony at Lao She Tea House

The Great Wall

Scary bad pollution!

The Bird's Nest Stadium

We Yanks are the butt of Chinese jokes....

If you only knew what a joke this sign is in China...

Knock off Yun Minjun paintings at the Dirt Market

Nicole receives a cupping treatment

Eric shows off the menu at Xiao Wang's Home Restaurant

Future Olympian

Guard at Lama Temple

Spin the prayer wheel

Ring the bell three times for luck

Flying Pigeon Bicycle

Picking up some "Tylenol"

Yes, that kid is smoking!!!