The trip started with an early morning flight to DC. We'd spent much of the night before packing, burning cds to bring as gifts to locals, and just pretty much getting fired up about our trip. So needless to say, we were dragging a little bit by time our noon flight took off. However, that didn't stop us from indulging in the free drinks for the first several hours of the flight (who can resist the lure of free airplane bottles or peanuts??). Many drinks, naps, and crappy movies later - we were finally in Beijing!! It was now Friday afternoon. We’d lost a day but we were so excited to actually be in China that we were ready to go! After a pretty painless process getting through customs, we were greeted by Orion waiting
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