On Friday night, I went on the staff overnight outing to a resort in the South of Beijing. The bus ride was long (Beijing's a big city!), and when we arrived we had a wonderful dinner, then free time to do many things around the resort.

I went for a walk through the gardens with my friend Dick, then over to the massage room for a foot massage with some of the other Canadian teachers. As I received my massage, they were playing the movie "Predator" on the tv...LOL! It was painful at times but it felt really good afterwards :)! For the rest of the evening, I played table tennis & shuffleboard (the 1st time for me, it was fun!)



Saturday, we went to Da Xing (Beijing Wildlife Park)...it was so nice! I took so many pictures of the animals, got scared by an emu in front of my camera & I even got to hold a tiger cub :> mmm...nature! Check out more pictures.




Later, after lunch, we had a fast (and I mean fast! We were through in less than 2 hours) visit to World Park (they have miniature versions of all kinds of famous landmarks from around the world). Got to see the Eiffel Tower, Stonehenge, Leaning Tower of Pisa, even the Great Wall of China, lol!