Maile Girl outside our hotel before we begin our first adventure!
On Sunday, we headed out for our first site of the trip, the Temple of Heaven. The temple is where the emperor used to go to pray for a good harvest. Surrounding the Temple is a park where local residents come to exercise, meet and chat. They played all types of interesting games including a version of Tai Chi with a paddle and ball that was incredibly graceful and fun to watch.
The kids watching the Chinese playing a Tai Chi game with a paddle and ball - the partners move the ball from person-to-person without letting it drop. Quite graceful!
After taking in the sites at the surrounding park, we headed up to the main attraction…
Maile and Mommy with the Temple of Heaven in the distance.
Maile and Daddy at the top!
Maile with Jamie, her classmate that is on the trip with us...
Come on Jamie, let's see if we can push this over...
I love this picture - shows the scale of the Temple...
Awwww 🙂
Maile Girl all dressed up in traditional garb...
Not amused about dressing up by herself...
... when your little girl asks if you'll get dressed up with her, you oblige 😉
Daddy suggested this pose (of course)
After roaming all over the Temple of Heaven, we went for a traditional Chinese lunch. So far the food has been quite good and we’ve managed to find stuff that Maile would eat (tofu, noodles, dumplings). We had one of her teachers write out that she was allergic to nuts and seeds and it’s actually come in helpful a few times.
After lunch we went back to the hotel and hit the pool. The kids LOVE the pool. I’m a little afraid that when asked about China, they might just rave about the pool 😉 Every afternoon that we’ve been here, we go for a dip in the afternoon.
After the pool we took a nap and then headed out for dinner at Da Dong Roast Duck – we had a private room for our group and a delicious meal highlighted by Daddy’s favorite Roast/Peking Duck. The kids started dropping one-by-one during the meal due to jet lag, so afterwards we headed home for a good night’s sleep. Maile has done better sleeping each night we’ve been here – still waking in the middle of the night, but going back down after about 30-45 minutes.
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