Orchestra

Yesterday I got to go the Starbucks here and it's exactly like the ones at home. We went to the Wu Dao Kou area for the first time and also to the Orchestra at Tsinghua University. The Orchestra was cool and we got to go up on stage afterwards and see the instruments. After that we went back to the Wu Dao Kou area and there watched some live music and it was a lot of fun. We got home kind of late but luckily we didn't have to be anywhere until about 9:00 am.

Then today we went to the Lama Temple and also to the Confucius Temple. We saw a LOT of Buddhas including one that was 18 meters high! Dr. Penner-Hahn bought an interesting hat outside of the Lama temple that looks like the character Raiden from Mortal Kombat. Then we went over to the Confucius Temple but it turned out that a lot of it was under renovation so we didn't stay for very long. We took some great pictures by a huge statue of Confucius. After that we had lunch and came home and stayed at the apartment for most of the rest of the day. I bought a ton of junk food at the grocery store and so now i have a lot of snacks. A lot of the food here still comes with little plastic toys in it I guess, I got a cartoon character in some ice cream cones and found a star shaped piece of plastic in my cheetos. I think I'm going to start collecting the little toys.

Tomorrow we go to the Great Wall! Hopefully it's not too hot... Brian checked the weather and it was something in the 50's F at home today and like 91 F here.