Well, this week didn't get off to a good start. First of all, some terrorist decides to try and blow up a plane in the states, creating a security nightmare! And secondly, a freak of a snow blizzard strikes Beijing, leaving the city in a stand still. The combination of these two events seemed potentially disastrous: canceled flights, hours in security, lost luggage, etc. Needless to say I was feeling a little anxious and perturbed. I did manage to succeed in driving my mother and boyfriend completely nuts when I entered crisis mode and starting forming contingency plans and obsessing over every little detail. Hey, if there was one thing that I learned from Girl Guides it was to "always be prepared."
Luckily, everything went surprisingly smoothly. I even found myself enjoying the grueling 13 hour flight from San Fran to Bejing. They fed us, gave us snacks, let us watch movies, and then they gave us blankets and pillows and turned down the lights for nap time. Delightful! Of course once we got to Bejing we would need all our energy to get through quarantine, immigration, and customs...oh my! Then we had to wait for a taxi cab in the brisk -11 air, which had no seat belts! Of course the cabbie's driving skills were top notch....not.
In the end we arrived safely to our little hostel next to the Forbidden City. It's not bad and it was cheap - 13 bucks a night for our own room! That being said, I'll be taking a shower over top of a toilet tonight!
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