{"id":225,"date":"2008-04-08T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2008\/04\/08\/beijing-spring-break\/"},"modified":"2008-04-06T23:22:15","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T15:22:15","slug":"beijing-spring-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2008\/04\/beijing-spring-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing Spring Break"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daughter and her friend visited Beijing on spring break. She lived here for the last two of her high school year. Her friend never set foot in China what-so-ever. They planned a full agenda: sight seeing, restaurants she missed, friends to reminisce, surprise birthday party (she is the surprise), etc.<\/p>\n

I was just getting used to this serene, orderly, tidy empty-nester life. Their arrival mercilessly transformed it with semi-chaotic whirl-wind of activities catered to the whims of young college kids. It was very nice to see my kid; also nice to feel the calmness crawling back after they have left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Day 1<\/td>\nArrival. She almost gave her birthday friend a heart-attack jumping out of a box as a surprise. Dinner at A-Che, a Carribean restaurant on DongZhiMenWai (\u00e4\u00b8\u0153\u00e7\u203a\u00b4\u00e9\u2014\u00a8\u00e5\u00a4\u2013).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Day 2<\/td>\nMorning to the Forbidden City (\u00e6\u2022\u2026\u00e5\u00ae\u00ab). Drove by the almost finished CCTV tower and marveled at the design. Mother met them near the north gate and brought them to a hot-pot lunch. After Temple of Heaven (\u00e5\u00a4\u00a9\u00e5\u009d\u203a), they came to the office to pick me up back home. We swang by Olympic venues: Water Cube and Bird’s Nest. DingTaiFeng (\u00e9\u00bc\u017d\u00e6\u00b3\u00b0\u00e4\u00b8\u00b0) dinner with a friend.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Day 3<\/td>\nGreat Wall at JuYongGuan (\u00e5\u00b1\u2026\u00e5\u00ba\u00b8\u00e5\u2026\u00b3). Toured Commune under the Great Wall<\/i> (\u00e9\u2022\u00bf\u00e5\u0178\u017d\u00e8\u201e\u0161\u00e4\u00b8\u2039\u00e7\u0161\u201e\u00e5\u2026\u00ac\u00e7\u00a4\u00be), an ultra-modern hotel designed as a commune of individual houses. They skipped lunch and came home for dinner.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Day 4<\/td>\nI tour-guided them at Summer Palace (\u00e9\u00a2\u0090\u00e5\u2019\u0152\u00e5\u203a\u00ad) and DongYue Temple (\u00e4\u00b8\u0153\u00e5\u00b2\u00b3\u00e5\u00ba\u2122). There is an hour or so before the dinner when we came back, so I dropped them off at YaShow (\u00e9\u203a\u2026\u00e7\u00a7\u20ac) for some touristic shopping. Lunch as JiaoZi (\u00e5\u00a4\u00a9\u00e6\u00b4\u00a5\u00e7\u2122\u00be\u00e9\u00a5\u00ba\u00e5\u203a\u00ad) restaurant. Peking Duck (\u00e5\u00a4\u00a7\u00e8\u2018\u00a3) for dinner.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Day 5<\/td>\nThey went hiking at Fragrance Hill (\u00e9\u00a6\u2122\u00e5\u00b1\u00b1). At around noon, they went to XiDan (\u00e8\u00a5\u00bf\u00e5\u008d\u2022) directly for shopping. McDonald for lunch. Belagio (\u00e9\u00b9\u00bf\u00e6\u00b8\u00af\u00e5\u00b0\u008f\u00e9\u2022\u2021) with a friend.\n\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Day 6<\/td>\nWangFuJing, hair-cut, birthday party followed by KTV.\n\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Day 7<\/td>\nPanJiaYuan (\u00e6\u00bd\u02dc\u00e5\u00ae\u00b6\u00e5\u203a\u00ad) then Beijing Planning Exhibit Hall (\u00e5\u0152\u2014\u00e4\u00ba\u00ac\u00e8\u00a7\u201e\u00e5\u02c6\u2019\u00e5\u00b1\u2022\u00e6\u008f\u00bd\u00e9\u00a6\u2020). Lunch at KongYiJi (\u00e5\u00ad\u201d\u00e4\u00b9\u2122\u00e5\u00b7\u00b1). Dinner at Very Siam (\u00e9\u009d\u017e\u00e5\u00b8\u00b8\u00e6\u00b3\u00b0).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Day 8<\/td>\nLeave home at 9am, depart from new Terminal 3.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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I am quite impressed. They packed lots of activities into a week. I was almost tempted to send them to Xi’An for a day trip, the real cost for that is 2 dinners slots. For these kids, that will be impossible to make up from their social calendar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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