Chinese Flag.
Toll Gate, heading to the airport to leave Beijing.
Our Beijing hotel room.
Looking out our Beijing hotel window - TianAnMen Square is off in the distance. All the small houses below were being torn down in preparation for the Olympics.
The front of our hotel.
Down below our hotel window.
Out our hotel window - You can see The Forbidden City in the distance.
Construction - See the guy up on the poles? No supports!
Outside all the tourist areas there were vendors trying to sell their goods. This person had vegetables.
Beijing streets.
The Great Wall.
Jewelry sales at the Jade Factory. Parents give their daughters jade for special occasions such as the birth of a grandchild, a wedding, etc.
Silk worm cocoons.
Scott's favorite architectural design - CCTV Complex. The final project has a section between these two towers, connecting them into one building. It is complete now.
The Bird's Nest.
All these pictures were made from silk threads. There were rooms and rooms of art!
Silk sheets and bedding. Amazing and very reasonably priced.
A little person with split pants at TianAnMen Square.
The countdown until the Olympics on the red board. Notice the soldiers marching. This was at TianAnMen Square.
Freshly painted buildings at The Forbidden City - Preparing for the Olympics.
The Forbidden City.
Sweeping the sidewalks at The Summer Palace - Always someone cleaning where ever we were.
Chinese Flag.
Toll Gate, heading to the airport to leave Beijing.
Our Beijing hotel room.
Looking out our Beijing hotel window - TianAnMen Square is off in the distance. All the small houses below were being torn down in preparation for the Olympics.
The front of our hotel.
Down below our hotel window.
Out our hotel window - You can see The Forbidden City in the distance.
Construction - See the guy up on the poles? No supports!
Outside all the tourist areas there were vendors trying to sell their goods. This person had vegetables.
Beijing streets.
The Great Wall.
Jewelry sales at the Jade Factory. Parents give their daughters jade for special occasions such as the birth of a grandchild, a wedding, etc.
Silk worm cocoons.
Scott's favorite architectural design - CCTV Complex. The final project has a section between these two towers, connecting them into one building. It is complete now.
The Bird's Nest.
All these pictures were made from silk threads. There were rooms and rooms of art!
Silk sheets and bedding. Amazing and very reasonably priced. 
A little person with split pants at TianAnMen Square.
The countdown until the Olympics on the red board. Notice the soldiers marching. This was at TianAnMen Square.
Freshly painted buildings at The Forbidden City - Preparing for the Olympics.
The Forbidden City.
Sweeping the sidewalks at The Summer Palace - Always someone cleaning where ever we were.
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