After the Zoo, we headed out to Lama Temple and Confucius Temple. The Lama Temple is a Tibetan Buddhist Temple and Confucius Temple is Confucianism (kind of obvious). Lama Temple was really touristy, which was surprising to me, but Confucius Temple was a little quieter. And we experienced our first battle with discrimination, which was weird. We took a taxi to Lama Temple and then walked down the street to Confucius Temple. On the way back we could not get a taxi for anything. Everyone would just go right by us. One guy stopped, and when we showed him where we needed to go he shouted a "No!" And drove off. Not sure what that was about...but it was pretty annoying. Also, I realize it's their culture, but it is SOOO annoying when people have to take a million pictures of themselves doing things. At the zoo I had to wait for this girl to get out of the way because she kept having her boyfriend take picture after picture of her pretending to "pet" the panda through the glass. Literally like 10 pictures. At Confucius Temple this girl had her boyfriend take a picture of her posing with every exhibit in the museum. Oh, a knife that Confucius once used to carve? Take a picture of me leaning against the case! Even when the poor guy just tried to take a picture of the temple itself, she would jump in - flashing the ever popular peace sign.
 

Anyway, here's some cool pictures:

Entrance to Lama Temple

Remember that!

They would light their incense and take it in to the temple with them. There were a set amount that they needed to take into each temple. I didn't take pictures of the inside of the temples because it seems disrespectful to me...people worshipping and me being all touristy. But just know that they were all beautiful inside.
 

Confucius Temple!

Tablets with ancient writings on them. They are almost faded, but you can still make them out.

Some writing

Another funny story - we went down the street with the idea of going to this little tea shop. We walked into this store - The Wu Mart, and it was a huge 4 level supermarket. So we were looking around and we got a 6 pack of laundry soap bars, a Wok, a big bottle of Coke, a bottle of Juice and a little thing of Pepsi. Anyway, we had left the backpack behind because we didn't plan on buying much. So Jacob had to walk down this really long, busy street carrying a Wok and a 6 pack of laundry soap. You have to pay for the bags at this store, so we just opted to carry them. But he was already out of place because of the whole American thing and to see him carrying these random items down the street was hilarious. On another note, all of those items together only cost 39RMB, which is about $7.00.

I wonder why people who are from Asia feel the need to hold up the peace sign? It must be a involuntary reaction....kinda like swatting a bug away from your face. lol... "Oh someone is taking a picture of me... wait... wait, PEACE!" I get it now! Peace instead of "cheese"... maybe??? Or maybe its some HUGE gang sign... that the entire continent of Asia is involved in? I have no idea... Im lost when it comes to the Chinese culture good thing youre the expert Krissy. LoL

No phone calls during thunderstorms? what?