Day 2 (Part 2)

Since i fell asleep last night I wanted to finish up day 3 activities. After the Wall we stopped by a shop that made copper pots/vase type goods. They are hand made there in a small shop. The outsides are hand painted and placed in a kiln. They are then polished with three different types of rock to smooth the surface. Inside the shop on the second floor was a restaurant. We sat at a big round table with a lazy susan. Joe ordered us up a bunch of food and we sampled many different Chinese specialties. It was all good stuff. I even got to sample Beijing beer. It tasted very good as well. Along the way we also stopped at a Jade shop. After the meal we went to see the 2008 Olympic stadium (birds nest) and the "Cube". It was really cool to see and one could only imagine the amount of people that were in the area when the games were on. We left the stadium area for some Tea tasting. We tasted 5 teas from the area. All of them were very good...

A $3 trinket I picked up outside the stadium... Joe dared me to buy it! It was the conversation piece on the bus...Come'on you cant beat a battery operated rickshaw with people in sheep outfits... it even plays music!

Dinner!

Tea Tasting