Another 7AM wake up call, this time to go to Tiananmen Square, also worth it, especially looking forward to the nap on the train ride home.
Tiananmen Square - luckily no tanks, but thousands of people still. The tunnels that go under the roads that they use a lot of the time instead of bridges, (which is great because they are nice and cool) are all over the square and lead to the Forbidden Palace. Both have security checks to get into them.
Kris found this t-shirt of Mao eating a cheeseburger outside McDonald's, I got the ObaMao t-shirt.
The Forbidden Palace - More white jade than I ever thought existed and all of it carved into animals or bridges or stairs.
Tea testing, the black tea was probably my favorite, but we also tried white, jasmine, pu-erh and Oolong or Black Dragon tea.
Kris holding up the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, because were tourists, and that's what tourists do.
Standing on the Heart of Heaven at the Temple of Heaven, where the Emperors once stood to pray for favorable weather.
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