goodness gracious great walls of china.

Ni Hao Mao - Happy to say that Ali's flight made it safely! Actually.. my flight was delayed 5 hours in Shanghai - so Ali and Jordyn ended up waiting on me.

We headed to the hotel in Beijing just outside the temple of Heaven. A lot of great pics to share so we'll go easy on the typing and heavy on the photography & Video. Ali will be narrating as well.. Is Eathan old enough to start co-narrating? Deh deh deh deh deh dehhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

Our tour didn't start until Sunday.. so we had Saturday to check out the town via our tour director - CooCoo. Here we are trying to catch a cab..

Navigating the subway line.

Hunting for Panda's... even with slanted binoculars.












Ali and CooCoo managed to hunt down the pearl vendors.. as well as some other necklaces of choice.

And yes.. we were able to find some lunch.. a mighty delicious one at that.



Yummmmy............

No jet lag on her... i still look jet lagged.. and it's been over 2 weeks!

Pearls didn't suit my fancy.. but I found some things that did. Increadibly fake.. but still caught my eye. Go figure.

Moving on to the Ming tombs..........

Sideways.. Pictures/Computer/& China - don't mix. Jordyn jumps over the emperor's walkway at the Ming Tomb.

Goodness.. greatness........ great wall.

Cable card ride to the base of the wall.

Start of our journey.. no sweat.. legs feel great.

Jordyn rocking the toboggan down the great wall!!

Monday a.m. walk through the temple of heaven.

Don't these people work?! Playing local games and chilaxing on a Monday a.m......

Forbidden City:

That's all for now. More video to come when we didn't take 15532 steps in one day.

Xie Xie