Since Miss Jane-Jane has been terrorizing my blog with consistent commenting, it showed me just how much she cares about me and Le Kong. Hehehehe I am taking my precious time to walk you thru my china trip briefly. There are just so much to remember, no wonder I forgot a lot of it… I’ll try my best.
Dedicated to my loyal reader—Huang8
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May 15th Chicago O’Hare Airport
We arrived fairly early, because Rob needed some exit row seats. His legs are just exceptionally LONG. Thirteen hours flight might just qualify him on the short bus to school… we were pretty lucky and were able to get our exit row seats!!! We were also made to swear to the almighty stars above ORD that we actually read and speak English well enough to save everybody if we crash to Mars.
I was pretty bored for a while before we could board the aircraft. So I paid my 10 bucks and got on the internet, researched about my future puppy, the Weimaraner. We then got on the plane and started our 13 ours flight to China. Not much to say about the flight, it was filled with fatty un-delicious food, crappy movies, back/butt pain, dry skin, and the occasionally “hand-me-that-f*-airsick-bag” drama… yep, I have motion sickness. And I swear that pilot must have flown fighting jet before, landing was beyond “earth-quake” rough.
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May 16th Beijing Capital Airport, Hotel
Friendly reminder: If you ever go to china, and trying to get thru customs in under 2 hours, you better run after you get off and NOT be nice. This aint America, baby...
We got to Beijing safely, got out luggage and found my dad. We stayed at a five star hotel, it was sweet!!! My dad has some membership thing that gets him 50% off regular rate at all five star hotels in china. We had such a nice time, people are nice, and they speak English!
Poor Rob was stared at everywhere he goes… My dad took us to dinner—Chinese noodles with Beijing-style meet Sauce… it was sooooooooo yummy. Then he had to leave after an urgent phone call, we found out later that my grandpa had another stoke that day. He has recovered soon after. We were so exhausted from the flight and went to sleep at 8.
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May 17th Let the Tour begin! Click on attraction hyperlink for more info.
We woke up around 6 and had breakfast at a local Chinese breakfast shop. Rob had Wonton soup, I had Soy drink, and salty tofu soup. Oh I miss Chinese breakfast…
The Ming Tombs
There are thirteen tombs for thirteen emperors from the Ming Dynasty. Only one of them is open to public—the Ding tomb for Emperor Wan-Li. They are currently working to open another one to public. The problem is that these tombs are all underground or inside hills, before they were dig up and opened they were very well preserved in sealed condition. Once they are open to air, the surfaces of almost all the artifacts are destroyed. Therefore, a lot of the historical places we went were such cases. We were allowed to part of it but not all.
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More coming soon…
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Best regards from NY!
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