A Weekend Gen Wo de Pengyou.

Yun and Kara, a couple of my friends from Stanford, are in town for the week, so I had a lot of fun hanging out with them this weekend and exploring the last couple of main tourist sites in Beijing I hadn't yet visited including the Summer Palace and Lama Temple. Yun is Chinese, so her language skills were awesome to have around as we toured, and Kara is 6 feet tall and blond, so I think we might have set an all-time record for number of pictures asked for over the course of two days...

China: The only place that could care less if you climb all over their ruins. These are some fountains at the old Summer Palace.

Paddle Boat at the "new" Summer Palace

Tiananmen Square - newly embellished for the Olympics

Best "can I take a picture with you?" yet. This guy made us come get in front of the Olympic countdown clock with him and pose in the huddle, plus he had some rockin' shades...

Last night for dinner, we had Peking Duck - they basically bring you a whole duck and make several different dishes out of it. They even gave us an ID card for the duck :/.


140 points to the first person to name the movie being re-enacted here. (Hint: That's a duck head. Double hint: I named it Petie)