Elf's Shrine

Only full day of Beijing for my parents! Today we head to Tianjin via the high speed train.


My father wants to go to the 妈祖 (Ma Zu) temple in Tianjin. It's located in the cutural street where all the arts and crafts of Tianjin are on display. Hordes of tourists are here. It just so happened that today is also 妈祖's birthday... I didn't really plan it on purpose but I guess it's good that we're there on that day! We missed the festivties because went on in the morning and we arrived only around lunch.






 

We also walked around the cultural street a bit but there really isn't anything much to see as we had already visited this place previously on the last group tour to Beijing. It's more like a slowly stroll wherever kind of thing. So after we were done with Tianjin, we took the high speed train back to Beijing.

When we got back to the hotel, I asked for bedsheets and it turned out that they were supposed to make up the tea sofa as a bed..... so they got one of the staff to actually do it up properly. >.<.

No wonder I saw the next door bed was done up quite nicely. grr.