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China Photos
Beijing Airport buses approaching our plane
Yes they have toll stations in China also
Dinner with Rita and Bendy from H&K
Wangfujing Grand Hotel lobby
Jerry with S.H. Jiang after his morning meeting
Part of Tiananmen Square with Museum in background
Us in front of Sun Yat Sin’s picture
2008 Olympic countdown clock
Jerry and May in front of the Mao reviewing stand
Emperor welcoming people into the next walled area
May explaining the 9 x 9 doorknob pattern to kathy
This gives you a feel for the size of a interior courtyard
Detail on a restored building
A coffee shop in the Forbidden City
Female lion outside of Emperor’s private house
Jade year figures from Qing Dynasty
May and Jerry outside of a concubine’s house
Two story stage at the Emperor’s opera house
Early Emperor opera records (Disks were invented in 1897)
Concrete being passed up while restoring a building
North gate to Forbidden City with flowering peach tree
Kathy watching the chef carve the duck
Opening scene from Chun Yi show
Night scene lit up stars on the theater ceiling
Jerry with our driver, Mr. Yuan (Mr. Money as May calls him)
Jerry being shown some raw jade blocks
Kathy with two door lions. No she did not buy them.
Us on the wall with the Pleasanton Weekly
It seems steeper on the way down
Local buildings and good marriage locks on the wall
Summer Palace entry courtyard
Dragon statue
First electrical fixture in China in 1903 from Germany
Renovated section of the world’s longest covered walk
Jerry and Kathy in front of a Summer Palace gateway
Marble boat on Kinming Lake where they held parties
Jerry and two new friends
Interior gateway
Beijing Acrobatics World Theater
Girls supporting girls
Temple grounds full with people on re-opening day
Group of people exercising with silk ribbon streams
Lots of people singing opera, playing instruments
Seniors get together for Chinese checkers, & cards
Man practicing caligraphy with a water brush
Largest group surrounds a musical play in the park
Us in front of the Temple of Heaven
Inside of the Temple of Heaven
Tablet Temple
Inside of the Tablet Temple
South side of he Temple courtyard
Detail on overhead beams
Jerry explaining the structural support to our guide, May
Nixon visiting the Temple of Heaven in 1972
Kathy and May trying our the flag dance
Lunch at the Shanghai style restaurant
Entering the Lama Temple
Building and gong on he right side of courtyard
Making offerings in front of first Temple
The first Buddha you see is the laughing Buddha
Detail on gates
A chinese Buick in the parking lot
Putting May day flowers in front of our hotel
Lots of bikes at the corner by our hotel
Neighborhood fabric store
Setting up the night market
Our hotel at night
Entrance to Palace Garden of Prince Gong
View of house with Bat Pool in foreground
Water bowl gazebo
Jerry watching water flow thru the channels in the floor.
Jerry trying to get good luck from the Fortune Tablet
Main pool with stone party island
Starting our rickshaw ride
New door to a large and wealthy family house
A poorer but patriotic alley with flags for May 1st
Lake Won Hai with Drum Tower in the background
Bridge to Drum Tower side of the lake
David, Jerry and May on the bridge
They still sell opium pipes here
Drum Tower which sounded every 2 hours during the day
Drum room at the top of the Drum Tower
Bell Tower which ran at 7 AM and 7PM each day
Drivers waiting along lake for their respective tourists
Swam boat from Boston?
... ‘not exactly’!
View of the Upper part of the Lake
Lunch at Mr Lee’s house.
Quadrangle garden shared by Mr. Lee and 4 other families.
Catholic Church built in 1905
People bouncing in a bungie cord cage
Kathy posing in front of a musical statue
Jerry outside of an ice cream parlor
Street corner scene
Atrium in the mall
Jammed arts and crafts store. They really sell ‘trinkets’
Kathy buying some more pants on sale
