The Forbidden City/ Tiananmen Square

Today we visited Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City and took a rickshaw ride through the Hutongs which are 700 year old neighborhoods.  We were able to visit one of the family’s homes and they prepared a typical Chinese meal for us and we discussed life with them.  In this family, the man was a Kung Fu Master.  We later went to a Chinese Opera.  Beijing reminds me of New York City but  with 16 million people.  There are no traffic rules and pedestrians do not have the right of way.  I am happy to still be alive to type this.  The blog will be a little more difficult to get to you than expected as the Chinese Gov’t censors some of the various websites such a facebook.  Most people buy a subscription to a server that allows them to bypass the censor which is what I intend to do in order to get this to you.  We have a few more days to wait until we get Lucy but I will continue to share my adventures leading up to her arrival.