My best friend Beth came to visit and words can't say how happy I was to have her here. We toured the entire city!
On New Year's Eve, Julia invited us to her house to make dumplings.
Then we had a massive feast!
This is Julia's family: Her husband, father in law, mother in law, sister in law, Beth, and I.
We had lunch one day at RBT. They have SWINGS!
The water cube refused to change colors for Beth :O( But we still had fun!
About twenty of us rocked out at KTV, my new favorite past-time!
The sky decided to be yucky for our day at the summer palace.
Isn't this neat? I wish I knew what it said.
The view from the top of the summer palace.
Beth and I went downtown to the Lama Temple. It was closed but this man from the restaurant we ate at insisted we go with him to the Confucius Temple. He even paid for our ticket. It was an awesome opportunity to practice my Chinese.
We went to Houhai and I introduced Beth to my favorite sweet treat. Fresh candied strawberries - yum!
On New Year's Day we went to Ditan park for the temple festival. It was so crowded we didn't stay very long. But we did catch a dragon dance.
I wish I had good pictures of the fireworks but pictures just can't capture the pandemonium of 14 straight days of fireworks. They were being set off on every street corner all day and most of the night. It was insane!!!
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2 comments:
I have to tell you that I had the most wonderful trip of my life coming to see you. Thank you so much for everything :)
Your pictures from Beth's visit look great! I am happy that you were able to have a visitor. Miss you much!
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