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The Train To Hong Kong

Not much to say about this trip. We took the T100 train from Beijing West Station (Xi Zhan) to Kowloon (Hong Hom) and it took a little over 24 hours. You could take the same train to Guang Zhou and sit in the cars toward the back, then when you arrive in Guang Zhou you get your cars detached and the rest of the train keeps going. The cost to Hong Kong is a bit under 400 rmb, sometimes discounted, and the train runs on alternating days, odd or even, and those days change monthly. You can find more information about the Beijing to Kowloon train here. The costs are different on that page, we got a discount.

Here are some pictures taken out the window of the trip.

Its been a warm winter up north and you can see that there is still green color just outside of Beijing. Convenient to be warm for those still unfinished construction projects. HAHA

Outside of Beijing, nearly every city is a power factory burning coal. This is the scene all the way down south. I did not get a photo snapped of the big smoke stacks on the way down, though we passed them numerous times.

That is good advice there in the bathroom. It is unwise to jump from the bathroom window.

This train is a little more civil than some other trains. It supplies you with toilet paper.

The next picture is of the neck of a teenage girl. She has a tatoo of the name of her boyfriend on her neck, done rather  poorly as well. The guy was on the train too,  only slept and played video games.  Hope that girl  knows what she is doing. Imagine the difficulty of trying to get  new boyfriend when you old boyfriends name is permanently engraved on your head. HAHA

Finally, I end with a video of German students of Chinese language doing exercises on the train. You cannot see they were German, but trust me...they were. HAHA

October Holiday Finished

Before I move farther into the Christmas Holiday, I would like to finally put down my last video from the October Holiday. It features cricket fighting and a heap of other exciting Beijing cultural items. Check it out.

Long Trip

Jiao Jiao and I just returned from a long trip around China. We first went to Hong Kong, then Macao, then walked back to China via the border at Zhu Hai, next we went to GuangZhou, Shanghai, Nanjing and then came home. We flew fast and furious and so I start my postings about the trip from the end. As we walked into the door of our house. My mother and father in law had been around and they had tidied up the place before we returned.

Beijing is a very dusty city and you can rarely see the shine of the floor. However, when we returned you could really see the floor shine, telling us that it had recently been cleaned. Jiao Jiao and I are both pack rats and usually keep things in piles around the house, but we found our piles had been reorganized.

This is the chair where Jiao Jiao keeps her clothes for trying on...those clothes have not been folded  since Moses was a young boy.

These are the boxes within which our lovely Christmas gifts from my parents arrived. They arrived a few days before we left and they were scattered chaotically around the room as we began our journey. They are now stacked so nicely...organization feels good.

I cannot believe how nicely they have stacked our clothes on our bed. It made us feel good to be home.

However, the most thoughtful thing that they did was that they prepared food for us. It was a really benevolent gesture.

Here is the KFC New Orleans burgers that they bought for us and the half a cup of tea that they prepared. Why half a cup? So we can fill it with hot water and drink it immediately. How great is that? Everyone should be lucky enough to have in-laws like that.

More to come from our trip as the weeks go on!!!! We will start at the beginning later on.