A Packed Day

Today was a very long day. First we went to a Ming Dynasty Tomb where there was so much land you would think they would have burred 34 people there. They didn't. Instead they burred 2 people. They burred the third emperor and the empress. They were burred under a big mound.

Then we went to a store that sold only things made out of jade. It was beautiful. They had orange jade, green jade, yellow jade, and red jade.

Then we went to lunch at a place where the front was all a really big shop. In the back there was a restaurant. After lunch we looked in the store. They had silk clothes, pottery, rugs, there was even a guy that was doing sand art.

After that we went to The Great Wall of China. It was so long. We went to one end of the wall. Then we got to a place that had a sign that said that no one was allowed to go beyond this point. There was still people that went there but they were hikers. After we stayed at the top for awhile we started to go back down. I personally thought going down was harder because the steps ranged from 1 or 2 in. to 15 or 16 in. to get to the top we took a ski lift and to get down we took the alpine slide.

After that we went to a dinner. But not just any dinner it was a Peking duck dinner. I loved it because they served it with wraps so you could put what you wanted in your wraps. It was so good. After that we went back to the hotel and went to bed. So far Beijing has been a blast!!!