We started the long weekend by celebrating the Royal Wedding on Friday. I was teasing Abhilash and telling him he wasn't half as romantic as Prince William was on our Wedding Day and his excuse was that William knew he was on Camera and is being watched by a million people around the world! Bah! Men!
Wouldn't you agree that it was ah-so-romantic when William looked at kate and whispered "You look beautiful"! I almost cried!
Saturday there was a terrible dust storm. It was grey and gloomy throughout the day. So we decided to stay indoors. We played Wii all day and did a Movie marathon in the evening.
Sunday was bright and sunny and after church we walked down to Xidan for some window shopping and stopped over at Din Tai fung for Lunch - ordered Dumplings for maincourse and Almond tofu in shaved ice for dessert. Yum!We then headed to Houhai for a walk around the lake.
Houhai's so much more crowded now than before , there's a lot of construction work happening too... We miss the Old houhai. Nevertheless, it's still nice to watch people out boating or flying kites or justtaking the Rickshaw tour.
Monday afternoon we headed out to the International Flower Port in Shunyi to see the tulips - we didn't seem to get a cab to go all the way out there as it's on the outskirts of Beijing , so hailed a "Black Cab" and showed the driver the address and got him to take us.The entrance to the park is 80 rmb and though a little expensive was quite worth it. The garden is filled with tulips - of all colors.We went around late noon and it wasn't too crowded. It was a nice,bright sunny day - perfect to get some lovely pictures of the colorful tulips.After our day out we headed to Sanlitun to unwind- headed to the Fisheye Cafe for Cupcakes and Coffee. Chilled out for a bit and then headed home to gear ourselves to get back to our mundane routine.
Pictures of the Tulips @
http://www.kodakgallery.com/gallery/sharing/shareRedirectSwitchBoard.jsp?token=524954013213%3A32167702
We're Saving our holidays for our trip to India , which means nothing to look forward to until October :-(
How lovely!
ReplyDeleteI want to visit China so badly!!
Dumplings looks great:)
And thanks for stopping by:)