Beijing - day 6, last day here

Whew. Its Sunday (17 September) and my last day in Beijing. I feel like I really haven't seen 6 days worth of sights in Beijing but I just haven't felt like dealing with the crowds, smog, traffic, large distances, etc. I have also been feeling pretty exhausted the past few days even with plenty of sleep and eating enough. Just to be sure though I treated myself to a western style buffet breakfast this morning and remembered how Americans get so fat while the Chinese are so slim! Then I met up with Sui and we went to have Chinese tea. We made plans to meet up in Xi'an (between Beijing and Tibet) in a few days and possibly travel part of the Silk Road in northwestern China before going to Tibet. We have roughly the same itenerary for the next 1+ months. She speaks Chinese which would make things much easier for me. Then we went for one final walk around Tiananmen Square. It was less smoggy and hazy today and would have been a good day to go to the Summer Palace which was my original plan. But I have to save something for next time I visit Beijing...

Now I just have about 2 hours to burn before I need to make my way to the train station to catch my sleeper train to Shanghai.