September 30, 2011: The Last Day

In the morning we took a bus back to Tianan'men Square.

This is on the main road just south of Tian'anmen Square.

This and the next several pictures were taken from the bus

This is the view from Tian-anmen Square of the National Museum of China.  A lot of people were waiting for it to open, but it didn't seem super crowded once we got inside.   

Wine Vessel with 4 Rams

People weren't allowed to bring in any bags or electronics, so we took turns going through Mao's Mausoleum.   White flowers were for sale outside the mausoleum.  Once inside those who bought flowers placed them in a special area and then bowed down to the floor.  After that we marched along single file, not being allowed to stop even for a second.   The room was huge with the body in the middle, and we all walked around it and then out the back.

 

Mr. Lion with the ball of power.

Mrs. Lion with the baby cub under her paw.

After some more shopping in the shopping area just south of Tian'anmen Square (where we discovered from an ad on a restaurant that one of the items of food we had had a few days previously was fried intestine), we checked out of our hotel and checked into a hotel near the airport.  We spent the rest of our Chinese money at dinnertime and then went to bed early, getting up around 4 AM to make our flight.  It was an uneventful flight home, and the end of another really fun trip.