As promised (and only about a week late), here are some pictures from the Summer Palace. There are more at my Flickr page.This is incidentally the place depicted in the banner I chose for the top of this blog, even though I didn't know it at the time.
Unlike the beautiful day on which I shot these, the past couple days here have been quite dreary. It rained for the better part of 24 hours the other night, and I seem to have picked up a slight cold as a result.
Our only tour this weekend (scheduled for today) was canceled in advance due to rain. We were supposed to go to 香山 (xiangshan).
Plans for the post-China part of the trip have started to take shape. At the moment our plan is to start with a few days on the beach in the Philippines, then check out Singapore, Thailand, and some combination of Cambodia, Vietnam, and Hong Kong before returning to China.
I'm toying with the idea of staying an extra week to watch the beginning of the Olympics, but not sure yet. Seems I could probably get tickets to some of the matches, which would be fun. And many people are extending their trips beyond what they originally planned, so I should have plenty of company for most of the time.
It's back to class tomorrow, so I'm going to go watch a movie and get some sleep...
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