Beijing Trips Begins!

Starting off our trip to Beijing in the United Lounge!

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Beijing
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1 Xinzhong Street 2nd Alley, Dongcheng Qu, Beijing Shi, China, 100001

Ray and his girl!

Those colored things are hundreds of padlocks!

The Flower Market was really cool!

We bought some orchids for Allison at the Flower Market!

Well, on the advice of others, we narrowly avoided taking a nap but our heading to bed pretty early! It’s four in the morning back home!

These little numbers are in our room....

Fire extinguishers are everywhere...

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Beijing

Pearl Market - interesting shopping trip

Nice Italian dinner in Beijing after a fabulous Chinese lunch!

Beijing Zoo

Peking Opera Signature Cocktail of the Kempinski Hotel

Forbidden City

Palace Garden Restaurant

Really bad translation for sausage!!!

We visited Allison’s school today, the International School of Beijing. I even read to a kindergarten class!

Al’s office space

Maker space with power tools!!!! Love it!

Maker Space

Organized Maker Space

How to plan your project.

Library!

Picture books face the kids st their height!

Play space

Teachers’ Lounge with outside seating as well!

Cafeteria

One of the domes

Great place to teach!

A very sweet kindergarten teacher let me read to her kids! I was so in my element!

Forbidden City

Look at this menu carefully! Unfortunate translation for sausage!

Mutianyu Section of Great Wall

Looking up at the Great Wall

On the tram to the cable car. There are no pics from the cable car. I am terrified of heights and couldn’t take pics.

Looking through the first tower

Before climbing down to the first gate.

Yes. That is terror on my face.

Our awesome guide, Matthew, with Ray.

Detail on top of living quarters at the gate.

So the plan was to go up that!

Gate where travelers passed.

I started going up. Then I remembered getting halfway up the Cape Hatteras lighthouse and also descending from Blarney Castle sitting on each step rather than walking...

Parting ways as brave Ray continued.

He made it!

I’m in that building below.

That’s me down there!

My safely fortified spot.

Tobagganning down!

Ray was somewhere behind me.

Now we have some videos!!!!

Climbing higher!

Headed out! Missed a day yesterday with the infamous Beijing Belly!