Bright and early the next morning (10 am), we met the four Shizz kids at Tian'an Men square because we were going to try to see Chairman Mao in his Mausoleum. Unfortunately, we discovered the Mausoleum is closed during National Holiday. BOO. I guess they don't want too many people traipsing past Mao's embalmed boy. Amusingly, while we were waiting for the Shizz kids, Zach and I were bombarded by people wanting their pictures taken with foreigners. We need to start charging a fee. Twenty qui to have your picture taken with us. Even the adults were doing it.After Tian'an Men, we all got on the bus and headed off to Olympic 
Green to see the olympic venues. We got there only to find out it was 50 qui to get onto the grounds! No way were we going to pay that much just to walk around. So we took a few pictures from behind the fence and took a cab to the Shizz kids' hostel and went to Hooters for lunch. It's just like the Hooters everywhere else (amazing, I know). Overpriced food that is OK. I wound up getting Chili fries and wings, and I was STUFFED. I hate to say it, but the poor Hooters girls only had 'skeeter bites with a lot of padding...
Green to see the olympic venues. We got there only to find out it was 50 qui to get onto the grounds! No way were we going to pay that much just to walk around. So we took a few pictures from behind the fence and took a cab to the Shizz kids' hostel and went to Hooters for lunch. It's just like the Hooters everywhere else (amazing, I know). Overpriced food that is OK. I wound up getting Chili fries and wings, and I was STUFFED. I hate to say it, but the poor Hooters girls only had 'skeeter bites with a lot of padding...Zach and I left the Shizz kids at their hostel to take a nap while we went to the silk market. Silk market is truly an overwhelming place. Seven floors of booths where people try to sell you things. And they do ANYTHING to make the sale. Yell, grab, block, insult, redirect, and just about any other method possible. I made out ok, only spending about 600 qui on a winter North Face jacket, two belts, two shirts, and some silk. Zach was not so lucky and wound up buying a bunch of knockoff coach bags for his mom and sister, setting him back about 2000 qui. Silk market is definitely not the place to be when you are sick, so after Zach bought the purses, we decided it was best we leave. I would like to go back the next time we are in Beijing and get a knockoff Diesel bag I saw and some knockoff Abercrombie clothes.
We were supposed to meet up with the Shizz kids again for drinks, but I was really feeling to sick to do anything else, so Zach and I went home.
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"but the poor Hooters girls only had 'skeeter bites with a lot of padding" --ahahahahahaha
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