Our Day in Beijing

View from our hotel room in Beijing.


Our travel group in Tianamen Square. (there is not enough anti-frizz stuff in the world to help my hair)

Sorry I missed a post yesterday. For those of you who have been here and those of you who are coming here, you know that the Beijing tour day is a LONG one. We went to the Forbidden City and the Great Wall. I do have some pictures of the day to post, but I forgot to charge up the camera so it died early into the trip. Dan took a lot of pictures with the video camera, but forgot the cord to down load the pictures. We are a pair. The day was amazing. Even our guide kept commenting on what a beautiful day it was. The Forbidden City was amazing but huge. We thought Dan's mom wasn't going to make it. She has at least 2 asthma attacks during the tour. She did recovery enough to walk on the Great Wall, but that was it. I walked part way up and Dan made it all the way to the 3rd tower, which was way way way up there. He says he took some good pictures. I guess we will post them when we get home or sooner, if we manage to find a usb connector that will work with the video camera. As I sit, we are trying to cool off in our hotel room in Chengdu. We had to get up around 3:30 this morning to leave for the airport by 4;45. Our flight wasn't until 7:55 but our guide was concerned about possible delays due to the increased security. We did manage to find the KFC and the grocery store today. I don't know what we will do tonight. I'm looking forward to a nap soon. We get Alex tomorrow at 10am. Pray that it all goes well. According to our guide, she knows we are coming.