Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Twenty-ninth Post Ever...
OK, about our fifth day in China...it really wasn't that long...we got up in the morning and we took the subway out to Tienamen Square. (I learned one of the strangest things about Tienamen Square. It was the site of a massacre that took place WAY back when a bunch of college students tried to get the communists to see what a democracy would look like through a demonstration. Well...once the army got out there, one of the soldiers thought they heard a gunshot, which resulted in the army shooting down all of the colledge students. Pretty extreme...if I do say so myself.) {In the picture you can see the Forbidden City on the other side of Tienamen Square, and how FOGGY it was that last day!}
Anyways, we walked all the way across the square and I was surprised at the amount of people there were in there, and it wasn't even a special day! Anyways, when we got to the other side, the gateway to the Forbidden City was even more jam-packed with people! Locals, tourists, local tourists..everyone was there! Well, probably not, but there were so many people! We walked inside one gate, and then through another gate, and then there was the Forbidden City! We wanted to go inside, but we didn't have enought cash! So we satisfied ourselves with going up into the gate. I'm sure the city would've been even more fascinating, but the gate was pretty amazing too, as gates go.
Anyways, after that, we caught a cab back to the hotel, grabbed our bags and headed for the airport. We had to sit and wait for an hour or two for our plane, and then it was a long, squished flight back to Vancouver. And then we got home, at like one o'clock in the afternoon on Monday. (we had left at five o'clock pm on the same monday...) When we had supper at home, it was really wierd to think that just that morning, we had been in Beijing CHINA!!! Pretty strange if you ask me... Anyways! That was our trip to China! Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did! I got to sign off now and go do some school, so I shall post about our Easter weekend tomorrow maybe!
T-T-F-N...ta-ta-for-now!
~XoxoxoxoxO~
Amanda at 2:25 PM