We woke up very early in Hong Kong to take a flight to Beijing. When we landed, we got a nice freezing breeze our way. Yikes! So cold. It's colder than NY according to weather.com. Aaron's new friend Loup picked us up from the airport, dropped us off at our hotel, took us to lunch (intestine, lung, and heart soup for aaron) and then dropped us off at the Heavenly Temple Park. It was so cold though, that I only took 3 photos and had no interest in staying. We walked across the street to a big flea market where Aaron got some shabu shabu for snack.
In the market, I watched Aaron the master haggle. He was amazing. He'd just walk away and they'd drop prices faster than girls drop panties at a Maroon 5 concert. I bought some souvenirs for my secret santa back home. We then went back to the hotel to go online, and we finally got a taste of the Chinese firewall. No Facebook, no twitter, no youtube, no blogger, and no google.
Loup picked us up for dinner along with his friend Sally. They took us to a famous Peking duck restaurant because it was American Thanksgiving. The spread was huge and I couldn't finish everything.
Yummy yummy duck!
We had fish, duck, soup, shrimp, snow peas,....see? So much food.
I had to order these little dessert ducks. Cute and yummy!
Here's our group. A cold first day, but a fun one filled with too much food.
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