China 2013: Day 3

Even on our third day in China, we still were surprised at how cold we felt.  The morning of the third day was the time we went to the Summer Palace.  The cold though made us not want to wander around.  Instead, we just took some photos and left after about 20 minutes.  It was unfortunate since the place really looked nice.

It was so nice seeing the elderly freely exercise in this open space.  Made me sorta guilty of not having any exercise at all. Hahahaha.

And here we have a giant rubber duck floating in the middle of the lake!  It was so cute, but it kept on being knocked out by the wind; sometimes, it even faces flat on the water.

After the Summer Palace, we spent a few minutes on a bridge to take some shots with the Bird's Nest, Beijing's stadium that was used to host the Olympics.

I think we had lunch after that and I believe that was one of the group's favorite restaurants of all those we went to during the trip.  But more on that later.  After, since the tour guide knew of the Filipinos' favorite past-time during trips (other than taking numerous photos), she brought us to a "mall" that held all these souvenir shops and imitation everything.  Below is a photo of the group fussing over an imitation iPhone.  The phones really look alike except for the box and the photos the camera take.  Beside that was a "mall", but more of stand-alone shops like Uniqlo, Mac, etc.

After, we watched the Acrobatics show which was quite fast, but amazing, especially the last act.  The last act was about 7 motorcyclists driving inside a sphere.  Crazy!

The ladies bought matching boots from the shopping and wore them right away to beat the cold.  The technique in haggling with the vendors is to simply walk away.  Then, they'd just come running to you giving you the price you want.  Man are they aggressive.

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