谢谢 (xie xie) = thank you
捏好 (ni hao) = hello

It’s day 4 and somehow these are the only Chinese phrases we know.

On the otherhand, here’s what we did today…

We visited the Temple of Heaven:

temple of heaven

And we pretty much were at the ’08 Olympics:

olympics - bird's nest olympics - bird's nest olympics - water cube

It saddens me though… the Water Cube no longer changes colors… even if you stare at it for an entire hour.

We wrapped up our evening walking along some of Beijing’s nice shopping streets:

Qianmen Street Qianmen Street - with views of the Tiananmen Square gate