Dongfang Hotel Beijing

Not since the weddings of the Miller sisters to their assorted princes has the Gilded Set appeared so unapologetically besotted. You might have thought they would have been embarrassed to be caught out like this, especially these days, flying in private planes to worship at the altar of jewelry owned by themselves and their friends. links of ...

We left Tulsa at 6:00 am on Tuesday, heading for Chicago. After a long layover, we boarded the plane for Beijnig The flight was almost 14 hours---plenty of time for reading, chatting, and a bit of snoozing, We arrived in Beijing at around 4:30 pm and were met by our guide, Happy Larry. The city was covered in snow!!!!! Our hotel is very ...

... Then we were ready to board his "microbus," which turned out to be a totally average car. In no way was this a bus. Oh well. Scott took a picture of the license plate as a precaution.<br><br>Our driver turned out to be totally goofy and fun, but also a complete madman when it came to driving. We wove in and out of traffic, passed on the left into oncoming traffic, and honked at every other person on the road: car, biker, or pedestrian and even sometimes just to let everyone ...

... Marathon (running through Kruger Park in South Africa), and some race taking you 135 km through Death Valley (going to have to check the existence of this one, sounds like pure suicide to me). .... Also, I'll have to admit at this time, I've been abstaining from my beers for the past month or so, but with the race over, I can revert to my old habits, and sip myself one of the many Chinese concoctions: today's favourite is Tsingtao Beer. Cheers!

... from harbor side closest to the Sheraton Towers called the Tsim Sha Tsui area. This area contains part of Nathan Street. Nathan St. or the "golden mile" is like the magnificent mile in Chicago. It contains every high end shop you can name. The view from our hotel room was Tiffany & CO, LV, Prada, and Coach. You could shop for days here if that was your thing. Pathway of the stars is a a sidewalk near the ...

... info. I'll cut and paste it at the end of this entry. In other news, my six Chinese co-workers are in unanimous agreement that I am the spitting image of the actress featured above. She's from Hong Kong and her name is Zhang Baizhi. I had originally dismissed their claim, because Chinese people always tell me I look like (insert random name,) but then this morning, a man stopped by the office, and when he saw me, without ...

... I'm looking up at the wall from the parking lot below thinking, okay, I can see the watch tower from here. Why do we need three hours here because we can totally make it to that point, which is the top right?, in so much less time than three hours. Of course, when we climbed the stairs passing elderly folk and being passed by energetic youngsters and reached that point, we quickly realized we had much further to go until we reached the top. So we continued climbing. We ...