Our last day in China, and Vanna's enjoying the extra few minutes of sleep. It's going to be a long day...
This morning we went to the Tian An Men Square, also known as the Temple of Heavenly Peace.This was our tourguide, Michelle.
A Senior Citizen using a water brush to do calligraphy. This is a popular activity, as paper and ink can be quite expensive.
There was a stone at the center of this platform that, when stood on, your voice would sound louder to you than the people around you. Pretty cool architechture, eh?Next we visited the Echo Wall in the same area. If one person stood at one end and said something, another person at the other end would hear what they said! We tried it, and it seriously worked!
Some cool-looking spouts
Vanna, you're supposed to kick it with your foot! Not wear it on your head! ;-PWe saw these seniors kicking around these feathered things, like a game of hackysack. We bought some and tried it out, and it was so much fun! Wish we had more time there...
Awww aren't they cute? Even Lily (my little sis for those who don't know) immediately said upon seeing this pic: "are they in love or something?"
Balancing a ball on a racket thing while doing Tai Chi
She was so graceful!
And then they started doing it syncronised, which involved tossing the balls to eachother!
We played more of that hackysack feather game thing in this area
On the way to lunch, we passed "Sophie's Bakery". How ironic is that?
There was a spare seat, so Jonny (Lim) had the waitress pour an extra glass of Sprite for Mr.Gobbles the Turkey-Monkey!
Preparing the Peking Duck.....It was absolutely delicious!
Then, we went to the Silk Road Shopping Mall. It was originally a traditional open air market type place, but they moved all the stalls into a 7 floor building.
Jonny completed one side of his Rubik's Cube!
The other Jonny bought new shoes, and 5 different colors of laces!
He also bought new earphones which you could change the casing color of (also 5 colors).
Then, we went to the Silk Road Shopping Mall. It was originally a traditional open air market type place, but they moved all the stalls into a 7 floor building.
Jonny completed one side of his Rubik's Cube!
The other Jonny bought new shoes, and 5 different colors of laces!He also bought new earphones which you could change the casing color of (also 5 colors).
So, he changed his laces and earphones so they matched! ;-P
Hey, that's MY scarf! ;-)
Vanna, Julia and I bought these 100% silk scarves for only BND 16! (original price was about BND 70 I think). Vanna is seriously agressive when she bargains....
Do I need a caption? I hate to embarass these two furthur, but hey, neither knows my blog address ;-) (shhh)
Then we went to this super-awsome acrobatics show! I decided not to attempt to take pictures; the people were moving too fast!
After the show, we went to dinner.
Then we went to the airport. We arrived at around 8:00 pm, and had to wait till....oh...10:00 before they opened the check-in counter? Our flight left for Singapore at 12:05 (that's 5 mins after midnight).
We arrived in Singapore at about...6:00 am. Allowing me only...4 hours of sleep!
Our flight to Brunei departed at....9:00 am I think....
Hey, that's MY scarf! ;-)Vanna, Julia and I bought these 100% silk scarves for only BND 16! (original price was about BND 70 I think). Vanna is seriously agressive when she bargains....
Do I need a caption? I hate to embarass these two furthur, but hey, neither knows my blog address ;-) (shhh)
Then we went to this super-awsome acrobatics show! I decided not to attempt to take pictures; the people were moving too fast!After the show, we went to dinner.
Then we went to the airport. We arrived at around 8:00 pm, and had to wait till....oh...10:00 before they opened the check-in counter? Our flight left for Singapore at 12:05 (that's 5 mins after midnight).
We arrived in Singapore at about...6:00 am. Allowing me only...4 hours of sleep!
Our flight to Brunei departed at....9:00 am I think....
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