Beijing

Beijing was cool – very traditional, old school Chinese city. Did all of the tourist thangs – Tiananmen Square, The Forbidden City, The Great Wall:

The Western World is starting to enter daily life in Beijing, as evidenced by the photo of this cool Starbucks below, but there’s still a ways to go before kids are bumping Lil’ Wayne and watching Jersey Shore…

Lots of history, lots of historic/famous sites, and some real good Chinese restaurants (go figure). The meals in Beijing were ridiculous - yeah, chopsticks are pretty much just an extension of my hand at this point… But the coolest building we saw was my bar (yes I got a drink here):