Thursday, October 26, 2006

Old ways are good

CHINESE LEG MASSAGE
After many days being on the tour and moving so fast and seeing so much all you want is a little pampering. So the night before we all decided that we would have a leg massage. Our tour guide arranged for four of us girls to have it all at the same time in our individual rooms by a different masseuse. No tipping allowed and only $25, great deal. When two masseuses showed up for Tina and I, we thought this is going to be so great. Well half way into it they started going farther than our legs and started really hurting our arms and back. We tried to laugh it off when we heard through the walls our friends Pam and Opal, we thought they were laughing and in reality their bones were breaking. Exhibit A for the lawsuit.



DR. SUN YATSEN HOUSE
Dr. Sun and his wife were great revolutionaries of China. Their home were beautiful and they did a lot for the country. I got to take my first rickshaw ride to the house through the streets of Beijing.






HUTONGS
They are old housing of how the Chinese use to live. Several families would be in a small walled off compound. It brought a new meaning to the United Order. Now only one family lives there.




DRUM TOWER
Chinese use to use these to announce to their public that the gates of the city were either closed or open. Watch your step‼‼‼‼!




YANGTZE
It was a very long day, a flight, two bus rides, and a trolley, but we are finally here on one of the worldest largest rivers.


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