Today was our last day in Beijing, so we went to the Temple of Heaven. As I mentioned before, it is on the same axis as the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square. This is basically a large park with a temple in the middle, where the Emperor used to go 2x a year to pray for the harvest. Once they got rid of that tradition, they were left with a huge park. Now that China is stricter on people retiring at the retirement age to make room for the next generation, all of those retirees need something to do. So, they come here and exercise and play games with their friends. Basically, it is now an adult playground. They are very nimble and active and it was pretty cool to see them doing group dances of playing Chinese hacky sack. After we saw the Temple, we tried to get our own game going of hacky sack and did pretty terribly. I know I haven’t played any sports with my feet in a while so I was failing miserably, but I still had a good time. Then we went to the airport and flew to Shanghai. Our bus went to the wrong exit and took a long time coming to pick us up to bring us back to the ship, but we got back ok.
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