Flick'ring Through China

I returned yesterday from a wonderful, whirlwind tour of eastern China, and guess what? After three days, my camera died! I was at the mercy of my fellow travelers for photos. Enter Flickr. I suddenly had at my fingertips, a whole range of photos taken by a multitude of tourists taken in the same places I visited. I browsed through a couple hundred photos of Beijing and Suzhou for starters and selected several to my favorites list. I now have those missing pictures of Starbucks in the Forbidden City and the leaning tower of Tiger Hill that I thought would be lost forever. Thank goodness for other peoples' vacation photos. Was this a timely lesson, or what?!?