Blog Post From Mom in China #1 -Touring (after arrival)

Hey readers, this is a post that mom emailed me (they don't have Blogger in China) to post to the blog, along with some pictures:


Today we toured Tian' Anmen Square, The Forbidden City, and The Summer Palace.  Let me tell you that it was a lot of walking.  An interesting fact that I learned today was that Tian' Anmen Square can hold 1,000,000 people.  One million is a lot!  The Forbidden City is twice as big as Tian' Anmen Square.  It was very crowded today.  It was also very hot.  The temperature was about 100 degrees + humidity.  There was also a lot of pollution in the air.  The Summer Palace is 4x bigger than the Forbidden City, but we did not walk around the whole place.  We ate lunch and supper at Chinese restaurants.  We ate roasted duck and lots of other delicious foods.  We also drove to the Olympic Stadium and Watercube and took some pictures.  We decided not to tour those because it would be a whole lot more walking.  One the way to the hotel, we decided to take the subway part of the way since we do not have a subway train at home.