Hello from China…….
We arrived safely and we all are healthy…how do I know that all 4 of us are healthy??? Well during the lay over in Hong Kong we went through a temperature check after departing the plane, when we arrived in Beijing China, we went through 3 temperature checks as well. The first check: the medical team, in their breathing mask, took each passengers’ temperature inside the plane, and then once we departed the plane we went through two more temperature checks. Each day when we enter and depart the Hotel and Office, our temperature is checked as well…So I feel we are all very healthy…
My first and only tour of Beijing was Saturday (July 11) and I did the Royal Canal Boat tour, the tour took us to the Five-Pagado Temple (Built in 1473) it is a museum to house 1,200 stone carvings from ancient times. Then to the Purple Bamboo Garden, which I loved, it covers an area of 140,000 square meters, including three lakes with two small islands in the lake. This place was a family park, I watched people enjoying the hot summer day, exercising, and the most enjoyable was watching several retires gather to sing. The garden is great place for people to SING. The Chinese people gather and sing for us Westerners. The last stop was ‘The Summer Palace’ which I swear there were over a million people there. It was hot, very hot, and I have never seen that many people in one place. There were vendors selling postcards, toy whistles, steaming corn on the cob, ice cream bars and plenty more items.
My second weekend, I went shopping which of course I loved. I purchased pearls, purses, sunglasses, flashlights, matches, and some Christmas gifts. Had a big time! I love to negotiate with the Chinese, we upset some of them, but I’m sure they got plenty of money from us. So it’s very fun to buy what ever you would like for very cheap then get on the web to find out what you actually bought and how much it would of cost if you didn’t get it in China.
I’ve had several massages here, full body for $30 and foot & head massages for about $5 each. The full body massage…once again I had quite the experience, Sarah and I decided to do a full body massage, the ‘girls’ speak very little English and we speak less Chinese. So they stuck us both in one room to have the massage, good thing we had two beds. Inside the room there was a shower, which the ‘girl’ asked me to take first, so I did (haven’t done that before a massage), so then it’s Sarah’s turn so she pretends to take one. The massage took an hour and of course it was a good massage, however this of course is not like your normal massage, one of us received a ‘credit card charge’ and both of the ‘girls’ got to first base. OM! So anyway, after the hour massage the ‘girls’ once again wanted me to take a shower, however this time both ‘girls’ and I are in the shower room and one of us is still naked…oh my that’s a first. So the ‘girls’ leave and I’m out of the shower and it’s Sarah’s turn. While I’m trying to get dressed, here comes one of the ‘girls’ again…so really it’s a good thing I grew up with two sisters.
So today was the total solar eclipse around 9:30am in Asia, so of course we stop work for a spell to check it out, however today like all other days in Beijing China, we could not even see the sun from all the pollution. Since we are now in 2009, some of us just watched it on the web.
Total solar eclipses are rare events, averaging their occurrence in the same given area an average of once every 370 years. Totality of longer than 7 minutes is a rare event, fewer than 10 per millenium (a thousand years). The total solar eclipse of July 22, 2009 has a totality of 6 minutes and 39 seconds. It is the longest solar eclipse our generation will experience. It begins in India and ends in Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. It travels the course of 3 hours 25 minutes. The umbra travels along a track approximately 15,150 km long that covers 0.71% of Earth’s surface area. An observer in the umbra experiences total solar eclipse. The next total solar eclipse longer than 7 minutes will occur in June 25, 2150, two generations away.
So I leave on Saturday and arrive back to American on Sunday, I was happy to go to China, but I’ll be very happy to be home with my man.
We arrived safely and we all are healthy…how do I know that all 4 of us are healthy??? Well during the lay over in Hong Kong we went through a temperature check after departing the plane, when we arrived in Beijing China, we went through 3 temperature checks as well. The first check: the medical team, in their breathing mask, took each passengers’ temperature inside the plane, and then once we departed the plane we went through two more temperature checks. Each day when we enter and depart the Hotel and Office, our temperature is checked as well…So I feel we are all very healthy…
My first and only tour of Beijing was Saturday (July 11) and I did the Royal Canal Boat tour, the tour took us to the Five-Pagado Temple (Built in 1473) it is a museum to house 1,200 stone carvings from ancient times. Then to the Purple Bamboo Garden, which I loved, it covers an area of 140,000 square meters, including three lakes with two small islands in the lake. This place was a family park, I watched people enjoying the hot summer day, exercising, and the most enjoyable was watching several retires gather to sing. The garden is great place for people to SING. The Chinese people gather and sing for us Westerners. The last stop was ‘The Summer Palace’ which I swear there were over a million people there. It was hot, very hot, and I have never seen that many people in one place. There were vendors selling postcards, toy whistles, steaming corn on the cob, ice cream bars and plenty more items.
My second weekend, I went shopping which of course I loved. I purchased pearls, purses, sunglasses, flashlights, matches, and some Christmas gifts. Had a big time! I love to negotiate with the Chinese, we upset some of them, but I’m sure they got plenty of money from us. So it’s very fun to buy what ever you would like for very cheap then get on the web to find out what you actually bought and how much it would of cost if you didn’t get it in China.
I’ve had several massages here, full body for $30 and foot & head massages for about $5 each. The full body massage…once again I had quite the experience, Sarah and I decided to do a full body massage, the ‘girls’ speak very little English and we speak less Chinese. So they stuck us both in one room to have the massage, good thing we had two beds. Inside the room there was a shower, which the ‘girl’ asked me to take first, so I did (haven’t done that before a massage), so then it’s Sarah’s turn so she pretends to take one. The massage took an hour and of course it was a good massage, however this of course is not like your normal massage, one of us received a ‘credit card charge’ and both of the ‘girls’ got to first base. OM! So anyway, after the hour massage the ‘girls’ once again wanted me to take a shower, however this time both ‘girls’ and I are in the shower room and one of us is still naked…oh my that’s a first. So the ‘girls’ leave and I’m out of the shower and it’s Sarah’s turn. While I’m trying to get dressed, here comes one of the ‘girls’ again…so really it’s a good thing I grew up with two sisters.
So today was the total solar eclipse around 9:30am in Asia, so of course we stop work for a spell to check it out, however today like all other days in Beijing China, we could not even see the sun from all the pollution. Since we are now in 2009, some of us just watched it on the web.
Total solar eclipses are rare events, averaging their occurrence in the same given area an average of once every 370 years. Totality of longer than 7 minutes is a rare event, fewer than 10 per millenium (a thousand years). The total solar eclipse of July 22, 2009 has a totality of 6 minutes and 39 seconds. It is the longest solar eclipse our generation will experience. It begins in India and ends in Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. It travels the course of 3 hours 25 minutes. The umbra travels along a track approximately 15,150 km long that covers 0.71% of Earth’s surface area. An observer in the umbra experiences total solar eclipse. The next total solar eclipse longer than 7 minutes will occur in June 25, 2150, two generations away.
So I leave on Saturday and arrive back to American on Sunday, I was happy to go to China, but I’ll be very happy to be home with my man.
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