NI HOW!

Okay, I'm back from Beijing. It was absolutely wonderful.... Can't quite get over just how awesome it was to (among other things) walk on the Great Wall, bargain in Mandarin, and spend one full day just wandering around on the subway. Went with a great group of people too.... will upload photos to flickr and do a full post when I'm able to string 3 words together in a clear sentence.

The food was AMAZING. The shopping was AMAZING. The people were AMAZING. Makes me want to go there again, on my own, and actually see the real thing - far from the madding tourist crowd.

*UPDATE* -- photos are uploaded onto the Flickr site - follow link on the right. Each photo has a description to give you an idea of what you are looking at. For whatever stupid reason, they are all out of order.... and this is only 1/3 of what I took... But, you get the idea.