Feeling better today and after our mammoth rest yesterday decided to take on the summer palace. Its not too far from the city and we took cab out there. Its got this massive man made lake that the emperor decided he wanted, we ended up walking around it, which was lovely, as the sun was out, blossoms and trees were beautiful and it was busy but not mental! the grounds of the palace were amazing, the palace buildings were pretty similar to the forbidden city but we saw the palace stage and caught a performance of some acrobats then some girl dancers and finally a traditional orchestra, so that was pretty cool. some of the empress Dowager's robes were on display, the most beautiful one with butterflies all over its.
Caught a cab back home and it drove past the new olmpic stadium which was VERY cool and VERY impressive. The city really is gearing up for th games, new trees and roads are everywhere, builders aree working through the night to complete buildings and there is sort of a decided determination to get the city ready..perhaps at any cost, i'm not sure. lots of buildboards up saying “we are ready”. i hope they do it tho not sure about the pollution really.Headed to a funky part of town for dinner, tried to find some good chinese dinner but everywhere was so busy! ended up in a place that looked good (and chinese what with all the unreadable writing...) and turned out to be japanese! But oh well cos we had a damn good feed, was another jap cook-your-own and we BBQ'd our own strips of beek then you dunk them generously in this sauce stuff and OMG the beef was awesome. Really thin strips and SUCH good meat! den was in heaven and we ordered an extra plate of beef. left feeling FULL.
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