October 8 in Beijing - Caleb tells it all

Hey guys this is Caleb. Today we are in China and it is absolutely amazing. Ok so the day of leaving Japan we had to wake up at 6:00 in the morning. Now for Mark and Liana that's usual, but me and Artemis??? NOT good. So we got up and got dressed and went downstairs and had breakfast and then we had to say goodbye. Witch was really tough because we had really become good friends with Chiaki and Satomi. But we finally left and Isono came to pick us up to drive us to the airport. The drive was about 1 1\2 hours and Artemis and I where about to fall asleep for life because we where so tired. But of course Mark starts talking about Seth and out of body experiences. And Isono is not that great at english so it went on for a while, basically the whole ride.

Well we got to the airport awake and walked around spent our last yen and all that jazz. Well we got on the air plane and it was HOT! The plane ride was good and we watched Hancock and the beginning of Get Smart, which were both sort of good.

Well we got to China and everything was immense. The airport was huge the buildings on the way to the hotel where massive. We went into the hotel and chillaxed for a while and then we went and had supper. Which was average. After supper me and Mark decided to go to this shopping block called Wangfujing. Turns out it is a high end very expensive shopping area. So we went to this tiny street packed with people and where just looking around and some stuff when we turned and saw a food seller. Well we looked at what he was selling and there was this jar and inside the jar where 2 types of skewers. The first type was live scorpion. Let me say the again. LIVE SCORPION, LIVE!!!!!! There where about 3 scorpions per skewers and they where actually moving and like squirming around. And the grossest thing was that a Chinese lady ordered one and they fried it up and she ate the whole thing, tail, head and all. So the second skewer was seahorse. Thank god it was dead. And in the display there was snake meat and cockroaches and some other stuff witch I didn't even know what it was. So that was an experience. And as we where walking along mark stops into this store and starts to look at this Mau hat. And he asks how much, the guy says 40youan. So mark starts to get that price a little down till the price was at 10. And then Mark decides that he doesn't want the hat but the guy wouldn't let him out of the store. He was literally standing with his elbow pointed at mark and wouldn't let him by. Finally Mark gets out and we are walking down the road and the guy is screaming out prices all the way down to 2yuoan. That was another experience.

So we where walking home and the buildings on the street where so huge it was crazy. And we got to the hotel safe and went to sleep and then there's tomorrow...