James and I were lucky to have an opportunity to go to China for 11 days and lucky too that Grandma and Grandpa Grover volunteered to come stay with Charlie! We had an amazing time exploring this other side of the world. Below are some pictures from the trip...
A visit to Beijing Experimental High School:
Next, we went to Tiananmen Square:
Inside the Forbidden City:
The Great Wall! What an amazing site.
A visit to a Hutong community for lunch:
Factory 798 (an old arms factory converted to a modern art community):
Some other things we saw in Bejing:
A visit to Beijing Experimental High School:
James and Fred
Mac Lab
James, Steve and Sharon from Middlesex County
Inside the Forbidden City:
James and Steve "flying" over the complex
Setting sun as we left
The next morning we went to the Temple of Heaven where we saw many people doing their daily activities in the park outside:
The Great Wall! What an amazing site.
See it way up there.
It was quite a climb to get up there... most folks took the cable cars but not us!
We made it!
We had the most gorgeous day
Took a toboggan down
Weeeee!
The next day at the Summer Palace:
After our tai chi
"Chestnuts roasting on an open fire"
A visit to a Hutong community for lunch:
The owner of the house and our cook
Rickshaw ride!
Factory 798 (an old arms factory converted to a modern art community):
(those are folding chairs)
Some other things we saw in Bejing:
Olympic stadium
Tea ceremony
Toilets that look like this
A toy we didn't buy for Charlie
No trumpets!
A pearl demonstration
Showers
Ads for the Steve Jobs book
