This last week has been about those last things. Eat all the fried dough you can get. I've ate more from the street vendors in these past 2 weeks than I have the entire 5 months.
I finally got to see them make the elephant ears. And they don't actually sprinkle sugar on it and fry it. They heat the red sugar and mix it into dough. So it's regular dough and sugar dough on top, stretched out and fried.
On the way to the bus stop I see 2 small sink holes on the side of the road. Sink holes in the city is not too unheard of here. Whole trees just dropping down into the ground.
It's another hot day and I've only 2 days left for myself to go out and about. I have my walking shoes and I'm off. I pass the cutest umbrella for sale in the tunnels to the subway. Many under street cross walks and tunnels going to subways have people selling anything from purses, umbrellas, fruit, underwear and mini veggie peeler to put cucumbers on your face.
First stop Pearl Market across from the Temple of Heaven. I remarked to a couple how hot it is today. They were from Miami and thought it was dry here. Yikes. That is why when I'm old, I will not be a snow bird to Florida. I wanted to get a painted bottle. Got it and left, snapping a picture of Tiatan while crossing the skywalk.
Back to the subway to get as close to Jingshan Park as I could. I didn't see the bus I needed to get closer, so I kept walking. I walked along the backside of the park and up the side paths, seeing parts I've never walked on there before. Lots of people at the highest point. I can hear a melting pot of languages here as I snap pictures out over the Forbidden City.
I would've loved to have entered the Forbidden City from the back to go to the garden only. But they made it a one way in(from the side facing Tiananmen Square), exit to Jingshan Park. There was no way I was going to walk through that again this trip. Pity I wanted to buy something in their gift shops along the back wall that I have not seen anywhere else. Oh well, next time when the kids are old enough to go.
I was out of time and had to head back. Way too many people queing for the bus I needed, so I thought it would be just as fast to walk all the way back to the subway. On the Forbidden City's side of street there were tons of beggars. Deformed migets, people w/o limbs, people on crutches. And always singing.
I actually got a seat on the subway right off and then the girl standing next to me(I was on the end), started to clip her nails. Gross. I had to move.
Finally met the foreign couple living in our apartment complex, newlyweds. Figures I meet them now that I'm leaving. The boys have been having fun everynight with a girl from their class and her little sister that is 2 and can run with the best of them. I've never seen them with anyone but their Nainai. They live in the building next to us. So we've been taking the kids to the park across the street and we've got all 5 kids holding hands. It's so cute.
More on fashion: Saw a little kid about 2 or 3 with the crotch to the knee pants. Hot weather must be a time for funky hair. I've seen girls with their heads shaved less the circle of hair on the top of their head. Which they put into a pony tail that goes all the way down her back. And they do the same with boys with 1 big patch of hair left on the front, top or base of scalp. One boy at their school has his head shaved with a patch on the top of his head that has an "X" going through it to make it 4 parts. 2 parts are triangles sticking up the other 2 hills, plus they dyed 2 sections. He is 5. Lots of jumpsuits here, think Charlie's Angels(the TV show. Yes I wish I could wear a few of them.
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