Beijing

It's hard for me to comprehend a city of over 22 million people! Even though we've been here before, the size is still mind boggling. And Beijing is only the second largest city in China. In comparison, NYC is the US's most populated city with a population of about 8.5 million.

We started off our day walking toward the Temple of Heaven. Along the way we stopped at an Islamic temple complex

and also a very busy Buddhist temple complex in a traditional hutong neighborhood.

By the time we were on our way again, Wren was really wanting some food. Luckily for her we found just her kind of a place - a steamed dumpling restaurant! There was no English menu but a nice woman working there spoke a little English and got Wren an order of six steamed pork dumplings and she ate every last bite right up!


We continued walking to the Temple of Heaven park and visited the buildings and walked through the park.


We saw many people exercising and playing Chinese hackey sack


and then we found a woman demonstrating Chinese ribbon dancing as well as selling the ribbons. Wren thought this was THE BEST THING EVER! Jason bought her one and she spent almost an hour happily ribbon dancing in the park.


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