Day 3 and 4 had very common themes - friends and FOOD! After my experience at cooking class in Italy, and upon the awesome recommendation of our friend Sohpie, we signed up for a cooking class at a cultural center in the hutong section of Beijing.
It was a dumpling class - well, because - who doesn't love dumpings!
We got there a bit early to ejoy the location - this lovely girl Sophie is just the bomb! We love her and loved getting to spend some time with her
Practicing my selfies.....
My and my favorite traveling buddies
The center was amazing - he set up was marvelous
The finished product - we had them boiled and pan friend. We were too busy eating them to actually take any photos of the lunch experience!
We moved from the FOOD portion to the friends portion - taking the train (by ourselves!) to Tianjin.
We rrived in Tianjin and were met by a classmate of Cami's who lives there. I think it was pretty cool for her - she likely doesn't have many of her classmates over to her house! Of course, in the Chinese way, we went to dinner!
Cindy and her parents treated us to a boat ride on the Sea River in Tianjin - that is a real ferris wheel in the background, and it is the BIGGEST one I have ever seen. We did not go on it - none were that brave.
Cindy's mom took a special interest in Becky
Breakfast at the Qin's home - SO much food - but so, so delicious!
Then....shopping!
This was the coolest - this man made sugar animals. As Becky blew into the thin tube of sugar, he formed it into a pig - her Chinese Zodiac animal.
We left the market, went home to yet more food, then off for our "trains. planes and automobiles" adventure to travel from Tianjin to Guangzhou via Beijing! It was a LONG aternoon and evening of traveling, and suffice it to say the girls experienced a different side of China - the hurry up and wait in line then wait some more side!
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