Nia Hao!!! We are in Beijing!!!!

Can you tell we are happy bunnies??? The train trip was really good....despite the fact that the train carriages occasionally banged in to each other as if we were being rammed from behind, once causing the thermos to fall off the small table and hit me on the head as I was laying there on the bench :)

The train was an hour and a half late (the crashing problem? We don't know - the English announcements stopped when we left Hong Kong). We decided to just get a taxi to the hotel and it was an adventure just helping the taxi driver find the place...and it was rush hour. But it was a mini scenic tour as the route took us right by Tian'anmen Square...and a thousand high rises! The roads are amazingly wide here and it reminds me of Los Angeles a lot more than New York - it's very spread out.

We will catch you later, we are off to see what we can see :)