生日快乐 Clayton! You don't even know how long it took me to type that out. I know you would ask me the pronunciation, so the English characters are 'shengri kuaile'. Hope it's awesome! Sorry about my unfinished entry yesterday, ending randomly with the word 'hot'. Fixed it. App was freaking out with the hostels slow wifi! Anyway, this morning we got up and walked our way down the main drag to the south gate of the Xian city wall. Xian is a massive city and ...

So we checked into the Han tang hostel in the center of the fortified city of Xian. The workers at the hostel were awesome, finding us a random room on the top floor, leading outside to the rooftop garden, despite not having a reservation for tonight as we had assumed we would be on the mountain. We then talked to them about the logistics of going to visit the terra-cotta warriors on Sunday, then driving out to the airport for our 6:20pm hopper plane. After some...

So we kinda survived our first overnight train. Last night after we had grabbed some dinner we headed back to our hostel to retrieve our luggage, then trekked back the the main road near subway. All we knew was the general location of the bus stop, and that we needed to get on bus 67. We found the stop pretty easily (bus stops here are really well labelled and there are queues painted on the ground for each bus) and our bus came within 10 minutes. Then we realize...