Saturday was a day full of shopping! We went down to Beijing's famous Silk Street. It was very impressive. It was six huge floors of everything you can imagine. They had everything from clothes, to shoes, to jewlery, to traditional Chinese everything. It was a lot of fun. I think we all spent a little too much money though! Some people (who shall remain nameless) even bought a new suitcase and filled it up with all the stuff they bought. They even had to unzip the expandable zipper!
Me carrying the suitcase FULL of stuff from Silk StreetSunday was also a good day. Some of us went to a museum in Beijing called NAMOC. It was very cool. The bottom floor was all modern exhibits. There were some crazy and weird things. There was a room that had a wall that you rub and it smells different scents in different parts of the room. There was another exhibit that was a CGI head on a big screen and you could type into a computer to talk to it and it would talk back to you. There was a computer that was programmed to be continually infected with the Y2K virus and automatically disinfect itself! It was a very neat museum. There were two more floors that were art exhibitions. It was very beautiful exhibit. We really enjoyed that museum.
After that we went to Temple of Heaven. It was a very beautiful place. The most famous building is the Hall of Prayers for Good Harvest. It is a huge circular temple on top of a hill it was very gorgeous. There was also a rose garden that was very nice. One of the most impressive sites was the Echo Hall. It is a circular wall surrounding the Imperial Vault of Heaven. One person stands on the east side of the wall and the other person stands on the west side of the wall and they can talk and hear each others echo. It was very cool. We had a very fun weekend but it is a little bittersweet because we are all sad that we don't have any more weekends together in Beijing.
The Hall of Prayers for Good Harvest at the Temple of HeavenZai jian!
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