Hey Lady - Beijing with the Girls

Walking through the Silk Market (which doesn't just sell silk, but a huge variety of counterfeit, black market or grey market items) what you hear constantly is "Lady, what bag you want" "Lady, what shoes you need" "Lady, polo shirts" "Lady" "Lady" "Lady." I could only last two hours, then I had enough. Some people have much more stamina than I do and stay all day!!

During the weekend with my girlfriends in Beijing, we also went to the Dirt Market, which doesn't sell dirt, but a variety of "antiques" and collectibles. This was much more fun. It is outdoors and the items are very interesting to look at. I liked the vendors there better too. They seemed more like personal shop owners instead of people hawking for business.







The best part of the trip was biking in Beijing. With my friends, Susanne and Yukiko, we biked for 4 hours through old hutong neighborhoods, parks and city streets. Double click on the album to see the pictures.

Biking in Beijing

And a close second best was the beautiful courtyard restaurant area where we had dinner (Mexican!!!!). And frozen yogurt for dessert - it doesn't get much better than that!



And a few final pictures of the local school outside our hotel window. I had a birds-eye view of their morning flag salute and exercises.








It was a great weekend!!
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