City Slickers

Beijing was amazing. As you can tell from the kids and Scott, the Great Wall was absolutely awesome -- breathtaking. We had a blast just hanging out there together. We also did the Ming Tombs, a jade factory and Peking duck dinner on Saturday. Then on Sunday we went to a silk factory and pearl factory and it was off to the Forbidden City, The Temple of Heaven and Tianneman Square. All very ominous and large...beautiful, detailed and enormous for one guy -- the Emperor (at the time during the Ming and Quing dynasties). Got to our Shanghai homebase last night, exhausted.
Today, we traveled into the city of Shanghai and had a most pleasurable subway ride (it's a good thing, because I thought for sure the kids were scared for life from the last ride). We went to the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum. It was quite amazing to see the ghetto where thousands of Jews lived during the Holocaust. The museum was a beautiful tribute to these Jews and the Chinese people who helped them.
We are becoming much more comfortable traveling the streets of Shanghai. John and Sue, our baker friends will be proud, we found a great bakery with beautiful cakes -- we took pictures for you. Went to the Yu Garden markets and had these amazing Shanghai dumplings, a steamed dumpling with soup inside. So good...
I love being in the city, it's bringing the city-girl out in me!