Day 15

Today we woke up ate breakfast and went straight to the Beijing zoo to see the giant pandas!! It was really cool!! The pandas sat in rocking chairs and on a different type of rocking seat that you see at kids playgrounds! Ingot some great photos and videos. They are actually really smart animals. To get a carrot they have to put their arm in the fence and grab this handle and turn it. While still holding on to it they eat the treats.. It's soo cute! We aren't allowed to touch them... Which really stunk but at least we got a better view than the other people who were at the zoo did. After seeing the two youngins we could go in groups and see the bigger pandas.. But they weren't as interesting as the babies were! After the zoo we went to the pearl farm where they showed us how they how many pearls one fresh water oyster can make. The one she showed us was 7 years old and had 20 pearls inside!! After people bought stuff we went to the emperors summer palace where the largest man made lake is located! We took a dragon boat ride on the lake and saw done white people...... Woahhhh. Jk
The summer palace was pretty interesting and really large! After the summer palace we went on a Rickshaw ride in the old city hutongs where tori was my buddy and we rode on the residential streets. We passed by a school and like all the kids our age and younger were smoking ... It was pretty shocking and sad. We stopped at a locals house and she welcomed us into her house with tea. She talked about her talent of painting inside little bottles. It's actually pretty interesting and looks hard and you need skill to do it. After we left we had got back on the Rickshaw and headed to the drum tower. We walked up these super steep steps. When we got to the top my legs were starting to feel sore. Me tori and Gavin took a picture together.... The three musketeers. We were gonna be the four musketeers but thane didn't want to join our super chill group! Going down the steps were kinda difficult because it was so steep. After that we went to dinner where we had buffet style foods. Tori and I made a new type of dessert called Fiesta Grande: smushed cheesecake custard, chocolate cake, breaded fish and broccoli. Plus a special treat... Half chewed dark cherry..... Yummmyyyy! We gave it to demetri and Gavin but they wouldn't eat it.
After dinner we went to the hotel where we got a few hours before our last bed checks.. Allysha and I got a room service burger to share while we watched BRIDESMAIDS!!! Tori and I played hide and seek in the bathroom.. It was a pretty short game .. It was a pretty chill night though