Beijing Day #1

Ray wanted to go up to Beijing during his time in China so we planned a 3 day trip up there. We arrived at the airport and headed right from airport to a portion of the Great Wall named Simatai. It took about 2 hours, but it was totally worth it. The Great Wall is one of the coolest places that I have been to in my life. This is one of those things that no matter how many pictures you have seen, the pictures do not do it justice, it was so great to be able to see it in person. We spent about 3 hours hiking up and down the wall, and were pretty tired when all was said and done, so we hoped back into our cab to head back to Beijing to check in.

All was going well when about 1 hour into the drive we got into a car accident. I saw it happening and new that the driver was not going to be able to stop, luckily neither Ray nor I were hurt in the accident, the only down fall was the fact that we had to wait about 2 ½ hours before we could leave the accident scene. This was a real big downer on how awesome the first part of the day went, so we hoped to redeem the day with a nice dinner. In regards to the food, we were totally dependent on the Lonely Planet guide book for places that we could go to eat, so we decided to try this place Xiao Wang's restaurant. We got there pretty late (thanks to the accident), so we were the only people in the restaurant. They didn't have rice, which was a huge strike, but they did have some good ribs and we got a really good vegetable. Their duck was not good at all, but the ribs made up for it, so the day was somewhat redeemed.