Houmous is not Cheese!

As a reward for all our hard work on the wall we went out for dinner with Eric and David to the chinese duck restaurant...so imagine the scene, David is about 7ft tall and in tow are the three of us...sunburnt (from the 12 degrees of course!) with quite obviously no idea what we are doing, the restaurant is packed with Chinese people and the waitress, although there is four of us standing in front of her repeatedly asks "table for four"? Eventually after she has paraded us around the entire room she finds us a table and we sit down．

Next comes the ordering saga, better known in our country as a game of pictionary! Davids duck was appalling - I'm surprised we didn't end up with eggs and bacon! But luckily international sign language prevailed and we got our duck, which was delicious. In an attempt to make life easier for everyone I decided to drink beer with the rest of them - I thought one glass won't be too difficult to drink?!...unfortunately the bottles she brought out were about the size of my arm, d'oh.

On the way back, David said he would show us where Tian'anmen Square was, this was highly useful since Ayms and me had gotten completely lost looking for it on the first day - turns out we'd gone in totally the wrong direction. Little did we know that the Square was a fair distance away - strike number two for the already sore feet. Outside the Forbidden City - we were cornered by some very excited Chinese man who wanted to have his picture taken with us...all together/individually...and then it was the turn of his brother/his sister/his friends...by which time a small crowd had gathered to watch this spectacle..."GREAT PHOTO!"

By the time we got back to the hostel there was no question that sleep was the only thing that we needed...and thus ended another day in Beijing :)