Beijing, Arrival at Plaza Hotel

Well, after 18hrs of travel from Atlanta, we made it! No poblems at all. The luggage made it all the way. The guy was there to pick us up and drive us to our hotel. Beijing is pretty damn cold! This morning when we arrived, it was 14° F! It's pretty ugly in the winter they say. Looks like Toronto to me!! ha! Anyway....we are just getting some naps in and heading out to go to the silk market to haggle and then to Tienamen Square to look around. If we can stand the cold that is!

The rooms here at the plaza are small. Especially in comparison to US rooms! They are very nice though! Everything is small when it comes to real estate because there are 13 million people in Beijing! The people have been VERY friendly and helpful so far. The food...well...that's another thing. We are trying to be open minded but things DO taste completely different from our American Chinese food. We have only had the food on the plane and breakfast so far though. We'll try some things while we are out today and report!! We need to sleep and wake up tomorrow with a fresh perspective though. We are all so worn out right now! More later. I was actually just testing my computer out in our room to see if I could actually hook up to the internet to get to this blog! So far so good!