Joe and Sko Adventures: Ni Hao from China!

Hi Everyone - I arrived by plane and taxi and put my Chinese to work! I find that I pick up the language in every city I move to very well -- NY and London and now China! :) Here is a picture of me next to one of many of China's cars! So far it's been a pretty good few days, but definitely not the same w/out my wife!!

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I got a chance to do a little site seeing on Sunday and went to the Temple of Heaven (southern part of Beijing is China's largest existing complex of ancient sacrificial buildings). It was pretty amazing and big. The building is about 600 years old and is mainly used as a park for retired people to sing, dance, practice Tai Chi, and hangout. I also ate Lamb (basically shwarma) at a Chinese Muslim Restaurant - According to a publication on mosques in China(1998 edition), there are now 32,749 mosques in the entire People's Republic of China, with 23,000 in the province of Xinjiang....wasn't bad.