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Jumping for joy because we are back home in San Francisco in front of the Golden Gate Bridge!

Day 4: USA! USA! USA!

To add even more confusion to the Russia to Thailand exhibit was the entry to the USA exhibit from Thailand.

I know that my geography skills are lacking but I’m fairly sure they are not connected by any land mass and are not really connected in any significant way other than in this park.

Honestly, I wish they were because I’d love to have elephants roaming the land in the USA but I’ve yet to see it so far.

Most of you know that Jill and I are from San Francisco so we got a kick out of the Golden Gate Bridge exhibit and Gulzar was nice enough to take some pictures of us in front of it.

In case you all didn’t know, Jill has a website specifically designed to help people who want to visit, and even people that live in San Francisco, find out what to do, where to stay, and how to get there.

It is called SF Tourism Tips, and we’d both very much appreciate if you would click the link and subscribe to it, or like it on Facebook, and use it whenever possible.  Here is the actual link:  http://www.sftourismtips.com/

Jill also has a SF Tourism Tips Facebook page if that is easier for you and your friends and family:  https://www.facebook.com/sftourismtips

Also, if you can share it on Facebook, or with your friends and family, that would be wonderful as it will allow us to continue our world travels and become financially independent in the next few years.

Thanks in advance and now back to the blog post!

The NYC exhibit was a bit strange, since the Twin Towers were still standing, but it was fairly well done and we enjoyed checking it out.

I really liked that you could see The Eiffel Tower over the New York Skyline from different viewing angles.

We then ventured over to Washington D.C. and checked out all the sites there.

We loved that the we could see a little Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Monument.

Who needs to go anywhere when you can have all of the world right in a tiny little park?

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Gulzar enjoying herself.

For some reason, Russia then turned into Thailand and the land of elephants and alligators.

I get that there are elephants in Thailand but I”m not quite sure how Russia and Thailand connect and I’m definitely not sure how alligators connect to Russia at all.

However, TIC as we all say.  TIC, by the way, means, “This Is China.”

It pretty much explains anything that doesn’t make sense.  I’m sure when foreigners visit the USA and our customs confuse them, they have a similar saying so it all makes sense to some degree.

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The Red Square comes alive!

We bought our tickets and entered the gate.

There is really nothing like entering a European castle gate when you enter a Chinese park.

This kind of silliness and hilarity keeps Jill and me laughing all the time and keeps us excited about finding places like this in Beijing since we never know what we will see next and it usually is rather amazing.

We bought some ice cream and checked out the map, with the rather pale skinned Native American in headdress, to figure out where to go.

We decided to head over to Russia and see what the Red Square looks like in China.

Gulzar just graduated with an MBA and her cohorts are all visiting Moscow, at this point, but she wasn’t able to go with them, so she wanted to take a picture or two of herself and send it to them to surprise them.

We were more than happy to oblige.

Supposedly they used 5,000,000 red tiles to recreate the Red Square.

It was definitely a good introduction to the World Park and all the fun we were about to have today.

After that we headed over to the arena, where they were putting on a dance performance, and the carnival area where I decided I’d look like a real American and hold up a gun.  It was only a carnival toy gun for the games so no one was scared and no damage was done.

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The castle entrance to the World Park!

Jill and I were getting ready to vacation in Turkey and Greece in a few days but decided we’d visit the Beijing World Park before we left for a month.

We invited Gulzar, our roommate from Xinjiang, to come with us since she would be leaving Beijing soon and we wanted to spend some more time with her before she returned home.

We also thought it would be a rather hilarious place to visit since we were going to see the real sites in Turkey and in Greece and to compare them would be quite fun and absurd.

Well, we were not wrong in our assumption.

It was one of the strangest places we have visited, so far, and it was a lot of fun.

Most of the places are done in a 1:25 scale and are pretty fairly reproduced according to the real place.

We decided we’d start our tour and then walk around so we could see the whole world and not miss anything important.

The next few days will be separated into each different area of the world and the buildings/bridges/scenes from each part that we visited.

Some will be quite well done, while others will be pretty strange, but all were fun and a joy to experience and take pictures of and be around during the day.