China and the Olympics

Acquired food poisoning from a meal at the Toronto airport while enroute for 13 hours to Beijing. Fun! Fun! Fun!

We landed around 4 PM, picked up our last batch of tickets in the city, dropped bags at our hotel, and found our seats at the university to watch the womens' wieght-lifing finals at 7 PM.




We had The Wall completely to ourselves for sunrise before it opened to the public.


The Weiwei Birds Nest


I missed Gymnastics due to sickness, but that didn't stop Bridget.
She caught both mens and womens events.


Temple of Heaven


We saw many track & field events


Russian athlete acheiving new world record for high jump


The Cube where swimming events were held


We caught a lot of Tae Kwon-Do
and fought with the U.S. Olympic Team


We then travelled to Shanghai.  This was the view from our bed,
windows floor to ceiling, overlooking the river.


Opposite view looking back at our hotel and the financial district


Silk embroidery, this is both sides of the same piece.


A silk worm factory outside Suzhou, the Venice of China.


A temple Bridget visited


Our ship on the Yangtzee River


DIning Room


Our servers


Above the Three Gorges Dam


That's me teaching Chinese school children how to do the Hokey Pokey


Boat we took for a tour of the Lesser Three Gorges


Hanging coffins were ancient buriel cackets ticked high into the sides of the gorges where they were only recently discovered when the Three Gorges Dam was completeed and the water level in the area rose.




Three photos demonstrating the power of my camera's zoom



Panda at the Nanqing Zoo


Performances in Xian


Terracotta Warriors of Xian





North of Beijing in the Ming Garden


The Forbidden City


Dragon Lady's marble boat


Flea market on our last day in Beijing.  We were the only round-eyes there.

New York City



Actual photo taken while driving through Times Square in my Sebring convertible