Though the looking glass, snarkily

So it's been a while since I checked in last with the blog, primarily because I'm a little lazy but also because work has piled up (the reason I'm ostensibly in China) and that Bonnie has arrived for an eleven day visit. We spent the first couple of days visiting the usual stuff in Beijing...Tiananmen, the Summer Palace, Chaoyang. Here are some of the pictures...
The Chairman...

After Beijing, we headed out to Beijing West Rail Station, this absolutely massive, badger-like structure on the southwest edge of the 4th Ring Road for our over night train to Xi'an, the prominent tourist city best known for the terracotta warriors.

Here are a photo from a VERY hot day in Xi'an (96 F, 110 F effective temp) walking around in the center of the city.

Tomorrow, the warriors!