Peking Duck

Meeting a Chinese boy at Tianenmen Square.

That is the understatement of the vacation! Chinese can only have one child, so for them our TWO white boys were like rock stars. It just can't be explained as well as it can be witnessed. They get a lot of attention in Korea, but there are a couple Westerners running around Seoul --- in China there are fewer Westerners, so the attention was exacerbated. At one point, the crowd had to be shoo'd away from a security guy. What a crazy (and actually annoying at a certain point) situation!

This time we replaced the Chinese lady and her son with Jim's parents. Phew, better!
And, there you go - the quintessential pic of Mao that you've seen a million times on TV.
Here we are in Temple of Heaven, akin to Central Park in Manhattan, except it used to be closed to the public and was simply the residense of royalty. It was a cool place because we went early in the morning and watched thousands of Chinese doing Tai Chi, which is anything from what we think it is in the states to the jitterbug to country line-dancing. Honestly! It's just dancing to whatever music you want, or no music at all, or spontaneous yoga - it is hard to describe, but very cool that folks of almost all ages go to the parks and dance/exercise together in the mornings.
Ah, there it is --- "When in Rome..." Raye takes her shot at some Tai Chi meets line-dancing with some Chinese ladies; she did it for quite some time and was assisted in a very friendly manner by the ladies closest to her there. She caught on like a local!
More to come.........