Friday, September 12, 2008

Arrive in Beijing

We made it trouble free! The flight was pretty long but we had movies to help pass the time. Heidi slept about an hour and I didn't sleep at all.

The Airport is HUGE. To get to the baggage claim we had to walk a long way, then take a train for a couple kilometers. We arrived at the baggage claim without waiting at any point to get there and, get this, OUR LUGGAGE WAS ALREADY COMING OFF THE CAROUSEL!!! They are efficient.

The cab ride was also interesting. About and hour and some times the freeway was reduced to one lane for no apparent reason and then suddenly it is opened up again. No barriers, just cops directing traffic to one lane!

I am having trouble loading data to my webspace on shaw so for now I will just put on links to Picasa.

Here is the cab ride in.

Our hotel is terrific. Here is a look at the room before we made it our home away from home.

Even without sleep we went out and went to the Donghuamen night market and had some snakes... I mean snacks!

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