Sunday, March 12, 2006

Day 13 Saturday March 11th.

I slept until 10 today. Yachin and I went to lunch with Jason, Oscar and
John, down the street from the hotel. Afterwards Corey and Mehmet joined us
for the trek to the Summer Palace. We really only had a couple of hours
there so we walked up and around the ��mountain�� and then down into the
streets of Suzho. We saw the marble ship. It appears that the Empress
Dowager really was a piece of work. She spent China��s military budget on
the Summer Palace, as a tribute to the Navy she was supposed to reinforce
she had a huge marble ship build along the lake (that was also man made).
Beijing is pretty flat. There are some hills along one side it is flat. The
Empress Dowager wanted to have a lake, so a lake was built (by hand) and
built the hill that the Summer Palace is built upon.

After we walked through the Summer Palace (in no way seeing even a fraction
of it) a couple of us decided to head over to the Pearl market. I picked up
a strand of black pearls and now wish that I had bought a second set of
white ones. Alas, there is always Shanghai.

We ran into some of our fellow students at the Pearl Market so we went to
dinner with them and then came on back to the hotel.

My plan is to be in bed by 9, I just have a couple more things to pack up
and then I should make it.

Our luggage needs to be downstairs at 7:30 with us boarding the bus at 8:30
for the airport. It is only a 1.5 hour flight to Shanghai so we should be at
the hotel by 2:30.

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