Today we visited the Summer Palace and Olympic Stadium. It was such a neat day. The Summer Palace was beautiful. The water surrounding the palace was frozen and we had quite the adventure "ice-walking" on it. The Olympic Stadium was enormous. It was awe- inspiring to actually stand in THE Olympic Stadium where all of the Olympic athletes competed. The Water Cube was gorgeous! Ashton, Taylor, Andrew and I had quite the time bartering with the locals for Olympic items. They followed us to the bus and I made lots of deals for the rest of our travel group :)
Our adventure of the day-We decided to skip dinner and head out on our own and found an Outback Steak House. The food was beyond delicious. Probably my best meal ever! It was very expensive though - but worth every penny. For all of us and Walter and Mary it was around $180. Steve, Kathleen and their group, Karen and her girls, and Madison and Taylor went with us. The blooming onion and cheese fries were just yummy. We found out that Andrew LOVES spaghetti. It was sweet!
The highlight of our day-Finding the shopping street :) Woo Hoo! Can you tell how excited I was? We ventured through the skewers of squid, snake and much more, until we finally found tons of street vendors! Can a girl get any happier? We had a ball bartering for items. I ended up getting stuff for others in the group also. It was wild! Sellers were grabbing you everywhere promising "best price for good friend." Hal took Andrew and Hayne back to the room, and I ended up helping Adam, Ashton, Madison, Taylor and Mary bargain. We found lots of neat items. Anna Grace got a very special panda that she named "Pandy"
Thankfully, Andrew once again went to bed without a problem. It is just precious to see he and Anna Grace in their jammies watching Barney.
We are running full blast each day. It is very tiring I must admit, but fun. Unfortunately there is very little down time. Andrew is not going to know what to do when we get home and can spend the entire day playing at HOME . . . you know just being together doing normal family stuff!
2 comments:
Outback Steak House?! wow! Your going to have to share that secret! Sounds like your having a great time. I'm still praying!
haha I'm sure Madison would love to know that you called her me but im sure her and Ashton had fun with the locals barting the the olympic items. I was there in spirit!
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