Joel's Trip to China

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We are in Xi'an. We went to see the pagoda today. It was fun. We climbed to the top. There were seven levels. Josiah is very fun. I like Josiah a lot. I can use chopsticks. Here are some pictures of our food. Tomorrow we go to the Terracotta warriors.

Josiah!

January 03, 2010

We got Josiah yesterday on January 3rd 2010. Josiah really likes cars. We play with them a lot. Josiah is very funny and I will really like how he laughs. We have stayed in 2 hotels so far and we have taken 4 airplanes so far. There was some snow in Beijing. When we were leaving Beijing we were stuck on the airplane for 3 hours because there was a big snow storm. There were about 20 snow plows at the airport. The airplanes were not taking off because the weather was very bad and it was very tiring on the airplane for 3 hours. While we were on the airplane I played on the DSI. And the wings were covered with ice so the airplane could not take off so one de-ice truck came around to every single airplane and the de-icer truck was kind of like a cherry picker. He sprayed it on the airplane wings by using a hose like a fire hose. At first the icer truck did not work because the pressure was not high enough so all the deicer sprayed the wrong direction and then the pressur worked and it...

Great Wall

January 02, 2010

We went to the Great Wall today. On one side of the wall was higher than the other side. We think the higher side was where the enemies were. We took a 1.5 hour bus ride and the subway (30 min) from our hotel. It snowed today at the Great Wall. We climbed up part of the wall and it was very very steep. I slid down part of it on the ice.

Exploring Beijing

January 01, 2010

We are finally in Beijing. It was fun seeing the Tian'anmen Square and Forbidden City.In the Forbidden City there was a lot of different houses. I used chopsticks for the first time (when I wasn't at home). We went swimming in a very cold swimming pool. My favorite part was hearing all the honking horns.