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Day 4
struggled sleeping last night, the heat was unbearable. woke up at around 5.30 to a traditional Chinese breakfast from chens grandparents. it was very nice :D
after breakfast me and chen decided to go visit a mountain with a slide going down it!! and the famous summer palace. we first went to the mountain, here we took a ski lift to the top of the mountain and slid down on boards. it was great fun.
next we went to the summer palace and looked around all the old buildings then took a boat on the lake with the palace surrounding it. what a view!!
time to eat! we went to a place called 'big pizza' basically a rip off of pizza hut although at big pizza its only costs around 4 quid for a full buffet, drinks and desert buffet. alrighttttt!
we then went to Beijing zoo and aquarium, although all the animals seemed to be sleeping, the aquarium was good though :D
finally we went back to chens place on the Beijing underground(i thought the London underground was busy)
once we got back to chens, his mum told me we were going out for a meal with one of her friends from university and her son, great! we went to one of the biggest Chinese restaurant I have ever seen. we had are own private room and waiter, finally i got to try real peeking duck and it was gorgeous, after the meal we walked back to there apartment. we walked through a street market and chens mum purchased some massive watermelons so me and chen had to carry them back home.