We are in Beijing! We spent an early morning in Tiananmen Square, the world's largest public square. For some reason, I expected to see a huge banner of Mao Zedong on one end. Actually, his picture (which is smaller than I imagined) is across the street from the square.
Later, we spent a full afternoon inside the Forbidden City, so named because it was off limits for 500 years. The Forbidden City was home to two dynasties of emperors. It's truly palatial; I found it hard to even imagine what it would have been like to been a concubine or servant here during the emperor's heyday. It is said that the last emperor would yearn to leave its walls, and would sometimes climb up to the rooftops to see what "the outside world" was like. (Connie)
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