Too many photos!

Well, I finally made it thru the 800 photos we (I) took in 3 days. Considering the fact that 2 years later, I still haven't waded thru all of our wedding photos to tell our photographer which to put in our album, I consider this nothing short of a miracle. In no particular order, here are the best of the rest of our time in Beijing.

Cute hutong inn where we stayed

hutong entrance

Friendly Lunar New Year reminders all over town....

In front of the new performing arts center...surrounded by a moat, you enter thru a tunnel!

Shockingly empty roads....Forbidden city on the left, Tiananmen on the right

Tiananmen

Me 'n Mao at the Forbidden City (which was closed the first day we went)

We weren't the only ones who thought it was brutally cold!

Forbidden City

Jingshan Park

Fantastic View from top of Jingshan park...the 980 buildings that make up the forbidden city

Houhai...surrounded by cute restaurants and shops that were mostly closed

2nd trip to the Forbidden City we find....an astroturf basketball court for the guards

The Forbidden City is huge--1km x 0.75km. This is the 2nd courtyard before actually entering

Demons to scare away evil spirits--The more demons, the more important the building

The end-all-be-all peking duck meal at Made in China. Ah-maz-ing.