Ritan Park

Location: Beijing, China
Local Time: Monday, September 25, 2006 - 7:11am

Good morning everyone. Well, we walked over to Tiannamen yesterday morning. At least, we walked most of the way. Then we turned around and went to McDonalds for a yummy breakfast before riding the subway to over near Ritan Park. There we wandered around and observed sword forms, Bagua, Tai Chi as well as dancing lessons, badminton, and some sort of hacky sack game that is played with what looks like a hacky sack ball with a scarf tied around it.

The Chinese really know how to use their parks.

In the evening we went back to Wangfujing Street see the chopstick stores, but we could only find one! I don't know what happened. I seem to remember hundreds of them last time I was here. I guess my perceptions were just a little skewed.

So, I had a minced meat burger (what Mark calls a Chinese Hamburger), then a patty of egg and potato deep fried, while Val feasted on a kind of rice, vegetable fried wrap. A quick wander through a camera shop reveals that Nikon and Canon DSLRs are the same here as they are back home, much too expensive.