Beijing by cell phone camera

Oh Sweet Star of Green.  Finding you on my first day there, brought tears of joy to my eyes and tastes of caramel macchiato to my lips!  

Old SCUBA Divers trick, keep looking back and taking visuals of where you've been so you can find it when you want to return.  so i took this photo of the train station by our hotel so i'd remember which stop to get off on.  

Judy surprised me by being far more adventurous than i gave her credit for.  Here she's trying dragonfruit.  (she considered trying the sushi but i put the kabash on that, since we were at a mall fast food joint!)

remember these guys?  

beautiful streets as we approached the Lama Temple

the temple had scores of buildings, carvings, statues and monks.  but none could be photographed.  anything outside the buildings was fair game though! 

incense.  burning lots and lots of incense.  

Even the rooftops had intricate carvings

Our passport to WalMart.  had to show this to a doze folks before we finally reached it though