Ni Hao is a common Chinese greeting. Why am I using it? Well, we officially booked a trip to China. It is going to be a bit of a whirlwind -- 5 days, 4 nights -- over the long Labor Day weekend. We're going to pack it in--The Great Wall, Summer Palace, Temple of Heaven, Forbidden City, Tiananmen Scquare, Beijing Zoo (how can the Mosman Family pass up a zoo?), Olympic Green (the park central to many of the Olympic venues), and more. When Jip went to fork out the dough for the trip today, we found out something a little bit crazy--we are probably going to have a tour guide just for our family! Wow!! The tour guide will be Chinese (but will speak English) and will meet us in Beijing at the airport. Then he is ours until he drops us back at the airport. Our travel agency takes care of getting our visitor visas for us--we just fill out the paperwork and they make the two runs to the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo to accomplish the task. These perks definitely make the pocketbook hit more palatable.
It promises to be a great trip, especially with our own guide! We're already counting down the days...
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WOW, that sounds like an amazing trip! And to have your own tour guide the whole time, that's awesome =)
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