Thursday March 10th, 2011- Arrived in Beijing!

We got off the cruise boat pretty early. Then took an adventure for the day. We were going to be heading to Beijing later tonight. I couldn’t wait.

We got off the boat and had to hike all the way back up a tons of stairs with all of our luggage. It was a workout for me at least.

Once all of our stuff was on the bus we traveled a bit. I am guessing I was asleep for most of the travel because I tended to fall asleep a lot whenever we were on the bus. While on the bus we found out that we didn’t exactly have a hotel booked in Beijing later that night. So we had to find one, we were almost homeless for a couple of nights, but thankfully, Rob figured it out and we ended up staying at the Green Tea Inn.

One of our stops throughout the day was a shopping plaza. Abbie and I went off and shopped our little hearts out. I ended up getting Brown leather boots. It was very hard trying to ask for different shoe sizes when you didn’t know the Chinese language. When I purchased the boots they even polished them for me before putting them in the box. Also when Abbie bought a coat they dressed her. They took such great care of you in these stores it caught us off guard a little.

While walking around we noticed there was one individual couple all dressed up posing for pictures. I found out that in China, the day before your wedding day the couples go out to historical places in China and take pictures. This fact was pretty interesting to me.

After our little adventure of shopping and lunch we got back on the bus and headed to the Wuhan airport so we could go to Beijing!

The flight was just a short little flight. But a little stressful once we got off. Once we landed we all had to run to a train because it was the last train of the night. We barely made it. We got off the train and all had to take taxis to the Green Tea Inn. This part was interesting. There was 3 people to a taxi. None of us really spoke Chinese. All the taxis were supposed to follow each other to the Green Tea Inn so none of us would stray from the group. The whole way there I remember holding my breath hoping that the taxi driver would follow the rules to follow the rest of the MOJO group.

All the taxis went down this little sketchy little ally way. So narrow. And then got dropped off. It was a little scary when we fist saw it but once we got settled into our rooms I am pretty sure all of us got used to it.

These next two days would be the last leg of our trip.