 Tiananmen Square pictures! |
Hi everyone... we arrived in Beijing today, got checked into our hotel that Miao's friend booked for us, and it is awesome!!! The hotel is a bit on the expensive side for Beijing (260 Yuan = $35) but it is in a great location, and within walking distance of Tiananmen Square. It also has free internet in every room, so I am using my laptop to make this blog entry.
Miao's friend has really been a lifesaver, she booked us this great hotel, and bought our train tickets to Taiyuan. To repay the favor, we took her out to dinner at Pizza Hut. It was fun. While at Pizza Hut, Miao videotaped me saying in Chinese "I am now going to Tiananmen Square," a sentance I learned in my Chinese class back in March, and now I got to say it for real for the first time. You can see that short video of me saying that by clicking HERE.
After Pizza Hut, it was a short cab ride to Tiananmen Square. It was really cool. We got there just as they were lowering the China flag, so there were LOTS of people. After the flag was retired by a military guard, the sun set and the lights were turned on.
I could talk for hours about all the neat things I saw there, but I am going to stop typing for now and just upload these pictures. It is about 10:30 pm Sunday Night in Beijing, and these pictures are only a couple of hours old.
Yes, it is the Hawaiian shirt AGAIN, because Miao thought her friend would like it.
Okay, bye everybody!
Bill Conrad
Tiananmen Kites
Walking to the Mao portrait, lots and lots of people flying kites in the huge square.
Miao and her friend
They are in front of the main gov't building in Beijing. Her friend works in a travel agency and got us a REALLY nice hotel, in a great location, as well as bought our train tickets to Taiyuan.
Sunset at Tiananmen Square
This was just after sunset... they turned on the lights about 2 minutes before we took this picture.
Me at Tiananmen
Hard to get pictures because there are so many people, had to wait awhile until the background cleared up a little bit, and had to wait until people stopped walking in front of the camera a little.
Some lion guarding the gate
I don't know the story on all these concrete lions in China, but they are everywhere. Crime is pretty low in China, so maybe these concrete lions do the trick.
A nice sunset picture
This was actually taken before any other pictures on this page, I just used different settings on my camera so you can see the sun about to set.
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August 19th 2007 - mom: WOW!
T.....Square is awesome! Your pictures came out great. Miao
you look really cute with Joe in the last photo.
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