Hello Ello! Used our early half of the morning to buy tickets to our next destination; Chengdu ( panda capital). The 32 hour train trip will be fun :( Used the day to walk around, found a mall of just cell phone stores: let's say 1000 stalls is a good estimate of local venders selling cell phones: only in China. After lunch we went to the Jade Buddha Temple: the Lama temple in Beijing was better. Spoiled our selves with an hour long cheap foot rub; hey, when...

I wakeeee uppp innn theeee morninggg feelinggg likeeee realllll s***yyyy; our very hard mattress gets all the compliments! After our morning back ache we went and had our free breakfast. Organized a bit and hit the road. Walked down side streets until we hit the busy Nanjing rd where we experienced more chinese interaction: "hey lady hey sir....nice watch, Rolex.... Nike Nike, you like Nike? " heard that X 20 at least. Went to the bund: a large section by the...

Oh Boy so we finally made it to china after a very long 15 hour flight. We couldn't land in Beijing due to the bad fog conditions so we had to fly to shanghai so by the time we waited in so many countless lines listening to old Chinese men yelling non stop. We finally made it to our hotel which was a 40 min bus ride from the airport leading to more long lines and us asking what the hell people were saying. So a few hours of sleep on a rock hard bed in a very col...