Beijing Stories ~

No pictures well ever do Beijing justice. It was so much more beautiful then I thought it was going to be. Of course the city has been cleaned up for the Olympics and the traffic has been cut in half but still. I was expecting a city more like Seoul. I was expecting there to be huge buildings with flashing neon lights and streets so crowded with people and bikes you can hardly walk. I didn't see any of that. The city has its downtown area with the huge buildings but you're not bombarded with "Vegas" like lights. The buildings are interesting and most have some sort of cool architectural design. I was a little freaked out by the CCTV (closed-circuit television) building though.

Anyway the food was amazing...so much better then Korea! I was slightly disappointed that it didn't taste better though. I had the idea in my head that Chinese food from china would taste way better then the knock off Chinese food at home. Turns out it tastes exactly the same...lol. Although I stuck to the basics and stayed away from things like shark fin soup, sea cucumbers, scorpions, and chicken feet. Either way it was a nice break from kimchi (i totally ate kimchi the second i got back though...haha).

K...back to work. Beijing part 3 coming soon (shopping, pollution, palaces, tea, traditional Chinese medicine, ect). :)

another day down

I can't sleep because all I keep thinking about is this 2x4 that hit me awhile back.

God I can't wait to go back to North America.

Beijing!

I can now say that I've walked on the Great Wall of China. How freakin cool is that!?!

So I took a million pics, but here are some of my favorites...








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I'll write more later, promise. :)