This military guy is guarding Chairman Mao's Mausoleum at Tiananmen Square.
John with the familiar sight of a Tiananmen Square building in the background.
We went to Tiananmen Square today. It wasn't scheduled on our sightseeing tour, but since we are here for a couple of more days we asked if we could go there. I did a little research yesterday because I couldn't remember the specifics of why it was in the news years ago. It was actually 20 years ago this year that students wanted to mourn the death of a politic figure. I'll let you do your own research if you want to know more. Amazing how time flies.
We went to a restaurant and had dumplings today. Dumplings are different here of course; I think we had four plates of dumplings that had four different kinds of fillings. The ones filled with lamb were pretty good.
John and Madison have scratchy, sore throats today, so we stopped by a drug store on our way back from lunch to get some medicine. John tried to get Madison to say throat this morning, but she didn't want to try. So, after she took one of the awful tasting longes (sp?), John told her, through our guide, that he would have gotten the better tasting ones if she would have tried to say throat. It was only then that she attempted to say it. (The "thr" is difficult for Chinese to say since they don't have that in their language.) I don't think she will want to take any more of the medicine even if her throat keeps hurting.
I'll give three guesses what we are watching on television right now... If you guessed a soap opera, you're right. Yesterday, was very sad, a little girl's rabbit died on the one that's on now.
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