A little less than too much: Day 4, A series of unfortunate events

Today promised to be great, it was Monday, nice weather, and Chris and I were on our own. We headed out to the subway, and got on 3 lines that took us across the city to the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square. Things were going too well . . .

We were told by Alec to first visit the Urban Planning Museum, which was a sweet contemporary black building to the south a bit; something that looking for you "couldn't miss." We didn't in fact miss it, we walked right up to it, right to the doors, and when the didn't open, we convinced ourselves it wasn't the right place. That's when the adventure started.

We knew the general area (in hindsight the exact area) that this building was supposed to be, so we started to walk, and walk, and walk, an hour and a half loop; through back alley's, main streets, shopping centers, and finally back where we started . . .

. . . . which is where we saw this readerboard in the only contemporary black building in the area (yes, the one where we went up to the doors).

"Open every day at 9:00 except Mondays"

Then, we said "oh well, we'll come back;" we still wanted to see Mao and the Forbidden City, a couple of things that we wanted to cross off our list anyway, mei shi we said (no problem, see previous posts).

But, Mao's museum was also closed on Mondays, so we settled for the Forbidden City tour today.

After walking over there we were seeing a bunch of people leaving, and not many entering. Turns out you can't enter after 4pm, which it happened to be after we had been walking around all day!

Saying of the day "We saw nothing but we sure did see alot"

No worries, we're headed back on Wednesday.

Opera house (near the Square)