Travelog for: Crabs

Hey mum,

It's me your sweet Crabs. We are going to join a pub quiz! How amazing! The place is located on the Gulou east street. Look here we are passing through the Gulou building, which is also called the Drum Tower in English. Have you ever been here before? I can also see the Bell Tower behind it. There are so many small stores on this street, most of them are restaurants. But we don't have time to taste local snacks, we need to be quick to get to the bar.

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Hey mum,

We finally made it to the bar. The name of the bar is Temple Bar, Dolly told me it is from the Temple of Heaven. She saw the logo on the pub quiz ticket. There is also a huge logo above the bar counter but the photo we took is a bit bright, it's not that clear. We were in team 4, haha our team name is 'Dolly the Destroyer'! Super cool! Our team mates love Dolly so much, all of them wanted to take a photo with her. Yes mum, did you see the table? They look so unique, and Mia said they are old gates. Wow..maybe we can make a new table together after I go back home. We ate a lot of chips and we also built a chips tower by chopsticks! I really wanted to help but I can't hold chopsticks with my pincers. They also use chopsticks passing a small orange ping pang ball, it was more difficult than building chips tower because they can only use left hands! Aha, a teacher called Max invited Mia to join their group, and he said they have more chips, haha Mia just took us moving to their table, took some pictures and then she went back to 'Dolly the Destroyer'. We were the third in the end, the scores are so close and we did have a lot of fun! Look at Dolly and our answer sheet!

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Hey mum,

Here is another photo we took at pub quiz night. The girl who was holding us in the photo is a teacher, she is from England. She was the one who thought out our team name 'Dolly the Destroyer', very creative right?

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Hey mum,

In the morning GiGi told me our friend Arn joined our toy voyagers' big family. He started to write his own travelog. We were trying to find him to give him a big hug, he was taking a nap on the balcony. Here is a group photo we took together.

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Hey mum,

Today we were going to sit on the balcony and learn some new words. Arn picked a book for us from the shelf. It was a hard cover dictionary with 5 different languages. They are English, French, German, Japanese and Chinese. The point is there are so many interesting pictures in it. We started at the word of family. Arn was really interested in the football page, and then we turned to the page of swimming, I'm the only one who can swim so I gave a short speech to tell some tips about swimming. It seems that GiGi likes the space page very much, she said she'll collect more info about planets and stars online. We finally got to the page of animals, we found giraffe and tiger together but there is no Crab. I can't belive they don't have crab in dictionary! I decided to start over to read it again and find the crab by myself.

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Hey mum,

We went out for a walk after a late lunch. Believe me, we've never eaten a single lunch on time since the beginning of Mia's winter holiday. On the pics below you can see an office building which is quite tall, if you get off the Wanshou Lu subway station via exit C, you'll definitely see it. And then the crossroads between Wanshou Lu and Fuxing Lu. Fuxing Lu is the west part of Changan Ave, means if you drive through Fuxing Lu to the east, you will see Fuxingmen,Xidan and then the Tiananmen Square. Wish I could visit there.

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Hey mum,

I HELD A SWORD TODAY! Actually I put it on my back. It is indeed a heavy sword but it's not a big deal for me. The sword belongs to a pretty lion, ummmm...he is soooooo colorful. I could say he is one of the most beautiful creatures I've ever seen. Do you know lion dance? The lions are absolutely stunning, aren't they?

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Hey mum,

Today we said goodbye to Arn Wes Wilde and Gretel. I will miss them!

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Hey mum,

Today we went to a building which was mentioned in a magazine! It is an architecture magazine. And the building was introduced as a renovation project located along the extension line of West Changan Ave. The article said: It is a reconstruction of a nine-story office building with a frame structure built in the early 1990s. The project improved the building's functionality, interior space and appearance while retaining the original structure, function and facilities.
ahaha..I love the sky, it was far too blue!

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Hey mum,

Mia told us we are going to visit Badachu Park in the morning! It is a historic buddhist site located on the western mountain of Beijing. So we packed some stuff with us then arrived at the bus stop, I just can't wait to get there! Oh yes a new friend will come with us, his name is Simão III, an orangutan. Ummmm..let me check how many stops in total first.

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Hey mum,

We finally made it to the gate of Badachu Park. I was just going to run through the big red gate, GiGi suggested to take a few minutes rest before we get in there. Haha we found a comfy place beside the lion, I was so surprised to see a baby lion under her paw. Did you see it?

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Here is a huge statue of a smiling man. Mia said he's Maitreya Buddha, he looks really happy, I wish I can be happy like him everyday. When we passed through the Golden-fish Pond I found that the lake is frozen, it must be more beautiful here in spring. And then we came to a long bridge. I saw some gaint footprints on the bridge.

Hey mum,

Did you see the tower in first picture? It is a Relic Stupa, which holds Buddha's relic. The picture is not that clear, I will come closer to have a look at the tower. And the second picture we took on the long bridge we just passed through. I noticed there were so many white spots down there then I relized they are all sheeps! Ok or goats. You know sheep year is comming, so there are so many decorations about sheep in the park. The last pic is a big Chinese character 'Chun', which means spring. Haha I can't wait the Spring Festival!

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Wow this pavilion is gorgeous!
Look at those magnificent art works!

Hey mum,

Here we arrived at the hall of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva,ummmm..honestly I have no idea who he is, I need to google it when I come back home, no no we can't use google in China, so maybe yahoo it. Let's see. Aha, the old man in the third picture is the god of longevity, he always celebrates people's birthdays. I bet he loves eating peach, you see he is holding a big one. I'm quite curious about the animals on the roof, I've seen them many times, will figure out who they are then.

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