Beijing, China
 Only Brian will understand this shot, taken from our hotel. Palace Hotel, Beijing, China. |
 Everything is miles away from each other. This was a mile walk to the front gate, and then there was another mile walk to the temple. |
 Temple in Beijing. |
 They made us wear these funky shoes to preserve some of the rooms in the Forbidden City. I think they just make the Americans were them to get a good laugh. |
 My honey kissing an elephant statue... good luck! |
 Tortoise Steele... It is very good luck to rub the tail of a turtle. |
 Mickey and Brian at the temple of forbidden love... or erotic infatuations... or something. |
 Dave and Sherry in a rickshaw. |
 Brian and the elephant again, I think he really liked this guy! |
 More of the mile long walk to the front gate. |
 Jennine in front of Temple in Beijing. |
 Shot of typical Beijing day. Smog from coal burning furnacing. Most heating systems were under the floors of the houses. Coals comes in 5 inch round pellets, which look like big hockey pucks. There is a MacDonald's down this street. |
 Mickey on the "way out"... Yeah, she's way out there. |
 More Beijing traffic. |
 Mike had to go to Beijing, China to find a silk Tennessee robe. |
 Mountains near Beijing |
 Brian standing on the center of the universe. |
 Figurines on the rooftops scared away evil. The more figures you had, the more wealth, standing you had. The last figurine is a chicken. |
 Dave, Sherry, Mickey, Mike, and Jennine standing on the center of the universe. |
 Shot of the drum tower from the clock tower. |
 Building in the Forbidden City. |
 Dragon/Lion with the cub suckling from her claw. There are always two. The male with his claw on the earth and the female with her claw on her cub. |
 Cloisonné glass being made. This warehouse is freezing cold, but the people have become use to the temperature. |
 Mickey and Brian leaning on an incense pot |
 Dave climbing stairs to the clock tower. |
 Brian, Dave, Jennine, Sherry, Alex, and Mike in front of building in the Forbidden City. |
 Cloisonné glass. |
 Dave helping little girl down the stairs. Note that the little girl has a slit in the back of her pants... They don't wear diapers, they just open the slit and relieve themselves (hopefully). |
 Jennine, Brian, and Mickey in tourist photo with Chinese. They wanted the blonde people in the photo. |
 Basketball court at the great wall of China. |