Touring in Beijing

We had a nice sunny day for our touring. We started off at the Summer Palace. It is where the Empress used to vacation during the warm months. A beautiful 48 acre site with a man made lake, huge palaces and stunning scenery. I don't have any pictures because my camera ran out of batteries!! I did get some video footage. We then visited the Pearl Factory and had lunch. Our next stop was the Olympic venue. It was so cool to be at the Bird's nest and the Water Cube. The whole place was beautiful and you felt a certain excitement in the air. By this time it was 3:30pm and the girls were all getting tired of the day. We still had to visit Tieneman Square. We decided as a group to just go to the Square and only stay for a few minutes and get some pictures. I was fine with that. Lily had been a great girl again today with all the visiting, but were all getting tired. It is now 6:30pm and we are ready to put Lily to bed. She is crawling around and playing after being in the carrier for the day. Hope all is well with everyone back home. Paula and I are counting the sleeps---2 more and we are going home!!! Yah!!! The picture of the hotel with the funny roof is where the athletes stayed during the Olympics. It is a 7 star hotel and the series of buildings are made to look like a dragon. Pretty cool!!!!