After a long trip, we drove 2 1/2 hours south on Saturday night stayed at friends house. Got up at 4:30 to eat breakfast and meet the bus at 6:30 to ride another 5 hours south to our airport. Once on the plane we had a 13 hour flight and never saw the sun set during the whole time as we passed the international time line. We flew over what we think was the North Pole and the Arctic Ocean and lots and lots of ice. We were very relieved to be on earth again, even if it did mean going through customs.
Customs turned out to be a piece of cake, I guess it should be when your not hiding anything. This was just a beautiful piece of art in the Beijing airport. There is are like this everywhere it's pretty amazing. As we walked through the airport I was amazed at how beutiful it was. It was granite floors and all glass everywhere. We make our way to meet our tour bus and their are thousands of Chinese waiting for people holding signs. It was a bit of an awakening we were not in the US anymore.
Yet some more art outside of the restaraunt we went to the first night. The food tasted a lot like American Chinese, we later found out we would be eating a lot of this due to the size of our group and restaraunts being able to accomadate.
Pictures from our hotel room the first night. Our hotels were amazing.
Pictures from the bus the next day as we travel from place to place. Beijing is a beautiful city.
After a long trip, we drove 2 1/2 hours south on Saturday night stayed at friends house. Got up at 4:30 to eat breakfast and meet the bus at 6:30 to ride another 5 hours south to our airport. Once on the plane we had a 13 hour flight and never saw the sun set during the whole time as we passed the international time line. We flew over what we think was the North Pole and the Arctic Ocean and lots and lots of ice. We were very relieved to be on earth again, even if it did mean going through customs. 
Customs turned out to be a piece of cake, I guess it should be when your not hiding anything. This was just a beautiful piece of art in the Beijing airport. There is are like this everywhere it's pretty amazing. As we walked through the airport I was amazed at how beutiful it was. It was granite floors and all glass everywhere. We make our way to meet our tour bus and their are thousands of Chinese waiting for people holding signs. It was a bit of an awakening we were not in the US anymore. 
Yet some more art outside of the restaraunt we went to the first night. The food tasted a lot like American Chinese, we later found out we would be eating a lot of this due to the size of our group and restaraunts being able to accomadate. 
Pictures from our hotel room the first night. Our hotels were amazing. 
Pictures from the bus the next day as we travel from place to place. Beijing is a beautiful city. 
We say a lot of these magnolia trees. They are just so gorgeous. I guess they only bloom for one week out of the year, lucky us for good timing. 
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