China - Day 5

Friday: Military Museum, Olympic Green

On Friday, we kept things pretty laid back. First thing, we went to the Forbidden City and walked up to a restaurant called Grandma's Kitchen, where we were told we would get the first American Breakfasts we had had in a restaurant in months. We were not disappointed, it was fabulous.

After breakfast, we started walking to a nearby park to hike to some more temples, but we had to scrap that idea last minute because my ankle was killing me, and we didn't want to risk me getting more injured than I already was.

After breakfast and vetoing the hike idea, we made our way to the Military Museum. It's all about China's history and winning free of Japan and other "evil" countries. It was pretty cool, and all the displays were really good, but it was full of propaganda and lies, most of which were in Chinese so we wouldn't understand them, but some were actually in English. My favorite part was the Hall of Presents. It contained a lot of the presents that other countries have presented to China over the years. Cody's favorite was a gold plated AK-57.

Directly after the military museum, we went to have lunch at the restaurant near our hostel again, and then we made our way to the Olympic Village again. This time we made it to be able to walk on the strip, and even caught the very end of a figure skating show. Unfortunately, we were too late to take a tour of the Bird's Nest, but we took a lot of pictures, and it was still really cool.

That was about it for Friday, unfortunately because of my ankle, we had to take it kind of easy.


Oh, we also had a dumpling making party at the hostel that night, we made them, then ate them...yum. It was great, in fact, we couldn't even finish them, hehe.