1.6 Billion Chinese Can't be Wrong

Wow, what a great adventure! Just some quick thoughts about China in general.

1. I thought it would feel a lot more crowded. Besides the freeways and subways at rush-hour, I never felt over crowded. Even the sites like the Great Wall and Forbidden City were very manageable.
2. Things in Beijing were very modern. Xi'an looked a little more primitive but only slightly. There wasn't any thing that we wanted in Beijing that we couldn't find.
3. The pollution in Beijing is horrible. Some days the visibility was less than a mile in the city because of the smog. This is really too bad because it is a very aesthetically pleasing city with the mix of old and new Chinese art and architecture.
4. When things are so inexpensive it is hard to control you spending. It seems like you are spending very little but it all adds up eventually.

Comments on the last trip were less yak-yak and more pictures so here we go.

Day 1: 26 hours, 4 movies, 3 dinners and 9440 miles

Day 2: Ti'an Anmen Square & The Forbidden City & several people taking pictures of our kids

...so in a real effort for speed and efficiency (for me and for you), I will just post a couple of more things below and if there are in questions you can put them in the comments and I will update the post. First is the list of our favorite things on the trip. Finally, if a picture is worth a thousand words, how much is 164 in video format worth. I don't know but it must be a lot.

1.Truman 2.Tally 3. Chlöe 4.Mom 5.Dad
Favorite China experience 1.Train 2.speaking Chinese 3.motorcycle taxi 4.Peking Acrobats 5.Massage
Favorite Dinner 1.BYU teachers Dinner 2.same 3.same 4.same 5.same
Favorite restaurant 1.Annie's 2.Annie's 3.Annie's 4.Din Tia Fung 5.Din Tia Fung
Favorite treat 1.Steamed bean dumpling 2.same 3.same 4.Steamed sponge cake 5. egg pancake
Most Beautiful thing in China 1. Flowers 2. Summer Palace 3. Lama Temple 4. Longqing Gorge 5. Longqing Gorge
Disappointment 1.walking 2. People smoking 3. nothing 4. pollution 5. Tian Anmen Square
Unexpected fun thing 1.Happy Valley 2. Train ride 3. Roller Coaster 4. Temple of Heaven 5. Lama Temple Buddha
Favorite mode of trans 1.Electric boat 2. 1st Class train 3. motorcycle taxi 4. Coleman's car 5. 1st Class train
Best purchase 1.splat egg 2. Kite 3. Ming Ming 4. present 5. present
Coolest thing 1.Cave of Wonders 2. Watching Bungee Jumper 3. Terracotta Warriors 4. Orphanage 5. Longqing Gorge
Favorite Ride at Hap Val 1.Banana boat ride 2. Train Roller Coaster 3. Flying Roller Coaster 4. Boinging car 5. Apollo's wheel
Favorite person met in Beijing 1.Andrew 2. Melanie 3. Ying Nan 4. Ying Nan/baby in orphanage 5. Elder Shipley
Funniest thing 1.The Karate show 2. Tally impersonating Mom 3. Truman in Pinocchio 4. Elder Shipley's tooth 5. Tally impersonating Mom

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