Beijing Olympic Botanical Garden

It's been a good day for China at the Olympics, overtaking the USA in total medals and more than doubling the USA's Gold medal count, as you can see in the nifty Medal Tracker in the sidebar that I added a few days ago!

For those of you not keeping as close an eye on the Chinese Olympic Team as I am, so far China has swept all of the diving events and gymnastics events, with the latest Gold medal in gymnastics coming from Yang Wei's dominating all-around competition. They've also earned gold in all but one weightlifting event that they have entered, earned several golds in shooting and have even been earning golds in swimming, archery, and fencing!

Anyhow, all that can be easily recapped by going to NBCOlympics.com, so I won't go into any more detail than I already have.

Instead, today I present something that isn't featured on NBC's totalitarian Olympics coverage, the Beijing Olympic Botanical Garden! I have visited the Olympic Garden in Atlanta several times before, but this is waaaay cooler than that. See photos below!

A guy playing with a hoop
A different angle
Bridge Kids
Old men, or something
Wall mural
Another wall Dolphins Not sure what this is...
Abacus!
Women and a boat
Not sure what this is either... Butterfly, pretty standard fare for a botanical garden A parthenon? A gate of some sort Hand, flower
Chinese castle
A non-Chinese palace
A vessel
My favorite - pouring a steaming cup o' tea!
Pond view
Cutout hedge dolls! I'm pretty sure this is Tin Pin Slammers!!!