China and the Olympics
Acquired food poisoning from a meal at the Toronto airport while enroute for 13 hours to Beijing. Fun! Fun! Fun!
We landed around 4 PM, picked up our last batch of tickets in the city, dropped bags at our hotel, and found our seats at the university to watch the womens' wieght-lifing finals at 7 PM.
We had The Wall completely to ourselves for sunrise before it opened to the public.
The Weiwei Birds Nest
I missed Gymnastics due to sickness, but that didn't stop Bridget.
She caught both mens and womens events.
Temple of Heaven
We saw many track & field events
Russian athlete acheiving new world record for high jump
The Cube where swimming events were held
We caught a lot of Tae Kwon-Do
and fought with the U.S. Olympic Team
and fought with the U.S. Olympic Team
We then travelled to Shanghai. This was the view from our bed,
windows floor to ceiling, overlooking the river.
windows floor to ceiling, overlooking the river.
Opposite view looking back at our hotel and the financial district
Silk embroidery, this is both sides of the same piece.
A silk worm factory outside Suzhou, the Venice of China.
A temple Bridget visited
Our ship on the Yangtzee River
DIning Room
Our servers
Above the Three Gorges Dam
That's me teaching Chinese school children how to do the Hokey Pokey
Boat we took for a tour of the Lesser Three Gorges
Hanging coffins were ancient buriel cackets ticked high into the sides of the gorges where they were only recently discovered when the Three Gorges Dam was completeed and the water level in the area rose.
Three photos demonstrating the power of my camera's zoom
Panda at the Nanqing Zoo
Performances in Xian
Terracotta Warriors of Xian
North of Beijing in the Ming Garden
The Forbidden City
Dragon Lady's marble boat
Flea market on our last day in Beijing. We were the only round-eyes there.
