Where are we now.....? Let me just consult my official China puzzle map!
Ah yes, today we are in Orange! ( This is an amazing puzzle I found at a toy store in Wanfujing! I think I will consult it for the rest of my stay in china. Its color coded for easy viewing and even has matching icons for each province! Hey much easier than trying to read maps in characters!)
This is the tea shop Tianji recommended us to go to.
The is the White Cloud Taoist Temple. It is fully functioning, there are still monks that live there. In this shot however I was trying to capture the the white seeds that are everywhere in the air. they look like dandelion seeds and a white and fluffy and there are so many of them it looks like it is snowing....literally! Unfortunately my camera couldn't focus on them.
This is part of the living quarters of the temple.
The dragon/turtes sculptures outside one of the temples.
Stian eating in the food court, which is really very good! So good we ate there three times in two days!!!
Stian pointed this one out: an unfortunately named wedding band..."Givorsi"...sound like "Divorci" anyone....?
This was quite a sight. Over the course of several days these crews were tearing down this building. The building however is on one of the most pedestrian populated and tourist streets in Beijing, Wanfujing shopping street. They had bulldozers on top of the rubble (still can't quite figure out how they got up there) but nontheless, they were just jackhammering away at the floors beneath as well as the rubble piles they were sitting atop...sound like a bad idea to anyone else? Not to mention the tractors were precariously balanced atop the rubble to begin with, and that they sweayed with each chunk of concrete that topled off. In addition there was no fence really or anything keeping the rubble from hitting passers by. Even the Chinese were stopped and staring, and they NEVER do that at constructions sites! So you know its bad!


This is me finally eating Mexican food!!!! Stian and I made it to the Mexican kitchen which is out by a bunch of Expat housing. Not the best mexican I've had but it definitely cured the craving.

We spotted this one on the Bus on our way downtown. Cleveland????? Cleveland OHIO!!!!