Last Week

The last week in Beijing was pretty relaxing. I had visited my family the previous week and came back to Beijing via the night train on Wednesday morning. Later that day we went to visit the Birds nest and the Ice Cube by the Olympic park.


In front of the Birds nest


One of only two 7 star hotels in the world! (next to the ice cube)


In front of the ice cube

On Thursday, we visited the Capital museum where we saw some amazing collection of Chinese art and historical collections. Afterwards, we strolled over to the nearly Xidan shopping district to buy some Ma Hua (delicious twisted fried dough). The same night we had our presentations...via Skype...haha...the connection was on and off but in worked ok overall. To pass time when the connection failed, we all sang along to Beijing huan ying ni....the theme song for this olympics.

On Friday, Spencer and I visited the Fragrant Hills Park where we spent 2 hours climbing the mountain.


A view of the mountain side. The view is supposed to be even better in the Fall because all the leaves turn red.

I spend Saturday packing and left early Sunday morning for the airport with the rest of the group. On Sunday morning we got up at 4 am to go the airport. The drive through the empty streets of Beijing was pleasant and quite a contrast to the norm.