What a day

Landed at Beijing. Crazy big airport. We were approached by several people "taxi". We declined and went looking for the Taxi stand. The first guy want 600yuan. By metered taxi it was 100. About $13 for a 30 minute ride. Pays to do research.

We took a sleeping pill on the plane knocked me out for 4 solid hours it was great. Woke very refreshed.

Exhausted now. We got to the hotel and checked in and went for a walk. It's my birthday so what a way to celebrate.

Found a little restaurant and had an amazing birthday supper. You had a hot plate in front of you with soup and you added your own ingredients and plucked it out after cooking and dip in a sauce. It was amazing. A really nice lady helped translate for us.

We went to a grocery store and picked up drinks for tomorrow. There sure are a lot of Chinese people here :-).

Amazing so far. Tomorrow we plan to walk around the city and the next day hike the great wall.

I am exhausted. This beer is hitting hard right now.