January 21, 2008

Hua Du Hotel

Just some snap shots of our hotel here in Beijing. It’s snowing today. That should make for some nice pictures.

Hotel

Lobby

Busy Day

Wow, what a day. After spending the better part of a day in airports or in the air, today was very different.

Today we toured Beijing.

We started at 8:30 AM and we got back to our hotel at 8:00 PM. It was go, go, go all day long.

To start off we saw Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City. If you’ve ever seen the Last Emperor, it was filmed in the Forbidden City.

At Tiananmen Square

In front of the Throne, Forbidden City

Then we headed to the jade factory and lunch. After lunch we hit the Great Wall.

Let me tell you, these pictures do not do it justice. It was absolutely amazing and much steeper than I ever thought. It was in the low 20’s to teens and the snow had stopped, but we hiked up as far as we could make it.

 

We made it to the top tower in the center of this picture.

Nice View

Steep Steps

And here we are on the wall together.

Isn’t she cute?

I’m tired, so that is all I am going to write today. Tomorrow we fly to Nanchang, and Wednesday we get Mei!

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