Chairskating and the W.C.

After the hutong tour, we walked to Bei Hai Gongyuan (Bei Hai Park) where we watched some ice skating. First, you can see the traditional skaters, and then the folks on chairs--hopefully you can make it out okay--it was a sight. They had these special little chairs for rent (or maybe they were just normal chairs) that the chairskaters pushed around on the ice using ski pole-like things. The coolest was when people would make a big chain of them and snake around the frozen lake. After watching for a while we went to Starbucks to warm up and then I found the W.C. using the famous internationally-recognized hand signal. Try it for yourself whenever you're abroad.