The Tian'anmen Square wasn't that exciting. We did manage to make it through without running into rabid protesters. It seems like everywhere you go, there is someone trying to sell you something. Every 10 steps we took, someone asked if I wanted some crappy Rolex imitation. The ones at the Pearl Market did a better job of hiding the fact that the second clock wasn't continuous. They also tried selling us watches with Mao Zedong waving his hand all the time. I think both of the Julias bought one.

After the girls ditched me in Tian'anmen Square, I met up with them at The Forbidden City. I was told that it was once off limits to Westerners. We showed them. I should've pissed in a corner while wearing an American flag T-shirt. The "lets take a picture with an American" was in overdrive today. Little did they know, we were rolling with 3 girls from Canada and another from Finland. The joke's on you. I got kinda tired of The Forbidden City pretty quick. The highlight was getting ice cream. The Imperial Gardens were the best part of the city. The last thing on the information board said that that's where the emperor picked his harems. What a pimp.

After a lot of walking and a bus ride back to the hostel, we still had 3 hours to kill before we met up for dinner. I needed some kind of towel to wipe off all the sweat that will gather on tomorrow's trip to The Great Wall so I headed to Wu Mart. It's the not same as Wal Mart. It's just like a mall. That place was huge. There were 5 floors full of people playing "stare at the foreigner". It wasn't as bad as I'm describing it. I did buy a shirt from some girl that was dead set on me understanding Chinese after I made it clear I didn't know what heck she was saying. That place was kinda funky. You pick out your items and then they give you a receipt. You take the receipt to some cashier on that floor and pay them. When you finish that, take the paid receipt back to the shop and then you'll get your item(s) all bagged up and you can be on your way.

We had a group dinner again. This time, some chick decided to sleep and be anti-social. We hit up some place where you cook your own food at your table. We had some sesame beef, some kind of pork, some veggie pancake stuff, some seafood pancake stuff, and marinated dog. That's right. I ate some fido. It’s okay… they breed dogs for cooking. They don’t steal neighborhood dogs. It was in the style of pulled pork. It was spicy and pretty good. We cabbed it to a night market after that to eat more weird stuff. I had scorpion, beetle, and a seahorse. The scorpion was the best tasting dish. I won't be heartbroken if I never have to visit or smell the night market again.

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