The weekend before Forbidden City - we went to Lama temple. This active Tibetan Buddhist monastery is about 40 minutes from our house and was amazing! Packed with tourists, monks, and monk tourists.
The complex was 10-20 different temples, ranging prom pocket size to one big enough to house a 50' tall Buddah carved from a single sandlewood tree. Wow.
That's it for todays's posts - more to come (hopefully more quickly than last time)
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Saturday, September 25, 2010
Family Pictures
Last weekend the trip was to the Forbidden City. It was pretty amazing. Basically just the buildings but amazingly huge. Hard to believe that this was essentially someone's house less then 100 years ago.
While there, no less than 4 families asked Lucas to join them in their family photo. He was clearly their favorite exotic sight. Go figure.
And the weekend before ....
While there, no less than 4 families asked Lucas to join them in their family photo. He was clearly their favorite exotic sight. Go figure.
And the weekend before ....
Saturday Excursions
Wow - it has been a long time since I have posted. Luckily, Kimbeijingerly has been picking up the slack.
We have started to settle into a rhythm here. Every Saturday, we see something cool. Every Sunday, we stay home, have soccer (sorry - football) practice, and relax. The weeks are packed with work, figuring out life, and normal life. Except life is not normal here. However, becomes more so every day. However, this post is not about the joys and struggles of settling in, it is about Saturday adventures.
This picture at left is obviously Optimus Prime. For those who didn't know, after he filmed Transformers the movie - he came to Beijing to hang out in the modern art zone - 798. He lives there amidst injustrial tanks, factories, caged dinosaurs, paintings, and other assorted modern art goodies. We had a great time yesterday with Lucas and his friends playing the game - "is this art?".
And last weekend ....
We have started to settle into a rhythm here. Every Saturday, we see something cool. Every Sunday, we stay home, have soccer (sorry - football) practice, and relax. The weeks are packed with work, figuring out life, and normal life. Except life is not normal here. However, becomes more so every day. However, this post is not about the joys and struggles of settling in, it is about Saturday adventures.
This picture at left is obviously Optimus Prime. For those who didn't know, after he filmed Transformers the movie - he came to Beijing to hang out in the modern art zone - 798. He lives there amidst injustrial tanks, factories, caged dinosaurs, paintings, and other assorted modern art goodies. We had a great time yesterday with Lucas and his friends playing the game - "is this art?".
And last weekend ....
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