Beijing

Tuesday night we took the night train to Beijing. That was quite the experience, we slept on bunk beds and shared the room with two other people. We got the top bunks, not because we called dibs on them or that we got there first.. we paid less money for our tickets so we therefore got the "lower class" top bunk beds.

We basically saw everything that could be seen in a 4 day period, we saw the Summer Palace, the Forbidden City, Tian'anmen Square, the Great Wall, Temple of Heaven and went down the street with the random skewed meats.







The weather worked out perfect for us, it was raining the day we went to the Forbidden City so we actually walked around rather than being herded around like sheep. :) We later learned that there are 9,999 and half rooms in the Forbidden City!. I think that Stephen and I went into 5 of them... In our defense, it is a huge city and all the rooms look a lot a like. The Great Wall was amazing! It was an overcast day, so it was mysterious and a even more majestic. It was quite the climb, I don't really know what I was expecting but Stephen and I got quite the work out for our glute's, calf's and quads. We had a beautiful view and once again it was not crowded so it was a special experience for us.




One of our favorite parts was the luge ride on the way down! haha truly though, it was pretty fun :)


Stephen and I might come back a little more conceited.. We seem to be quite the popular ones here. We have become a new, must see, tourist spot. We get a lot of stares and sometimes even get stopped for a quick photo op. We have become good at striking our poises, putting our arms around someone and the other hand up with fingers doing the peace sign... gets em every time :)

We really enjoyed our Beijing adventure, however, we are both so happy to be back "home" in Shanghai!