Briony is here!!

I know I only posted the other day but we've actually done a fair bit in that time. On Tuesday we got up relatively early to visit the Temple of Heaven park. It was an amazing day, blue skies and all that. We stayed there for hours just meandering around the park. It's a sort of huge old persons playground. They dance in massive groups, do tai chi, kickups (with weights with feathers attached to them), play with ribbon things (see below) and play Roubi Ball.



Roubi Ball is a game with sort of tennis rackets which catch the ball. You just lob the ball back and forth to one another, sounds mundane but it was good enough fun for me and Andy to buy a set! It was such a good day and we'll definately be taking Briony back there.



Yesterday we went to the Olympic Stadium, aka The Birds Nest. It's a fantastic looking stadium and the whole complex is huge! We walked by the Water Cube and went into the stadium. It was pretty cool walking down onto the place where we saw the ceremonies and Olympic events only last summer. Clearly the place still makes a fair bit of money from tourists. We had our packed lunch sitting in the middle of the stadium and played more Roubi Ball. It was really funny when the Chinese spotted us though. It was like being a celebrity. There was, at one point, an actual queue of people waiting to get a photo with us!



To today then - Briony is here! It has been a long time coming but now the four of us are together. It feels like we're back at Uni again... except we're in China!