2 weeks in North America

Just got home from our North America trip. We wanted to blog earlier, but sadly my computer crashed. So I now have a new hard drive and we are back in business.
We had a wonderful time in Vancouver with Bob Amy, Mo & Miriam at the beginning and end of the trip. Vancouver put on snow for us the 2nd time there. Denver also had plenty of snow.
San Diego and LA were nice. It was great to catch up with old friends Nick and Courtney in San Diego. Courtney took us down to an amazing Orphanage in Tijuana run by an amazing couple caring for the children of street women.
Then we had a great time in LA with Curtis, Christy Rose, Chris and Athania. Becky also came for a visit, it was almost like being back in Hong Kong. Although our visit to Disneyland proved the Hong Kong version has some catching up to do. Somewhere in there we did get in plenty of meetings.

Beijing

Sue & I took advantage of the Christmas break to take a visit to Beijing, but such is our schedule that I am actually blogging this from Vancouver (more on that in a later Blog). I have not been in Beijing since 1987 so you can imagine the changes since then. They seem to be doing a good job getting it ready for the Olympics. They just need to do something about cars and bikes having target practice with Pedestrians on crossings. It seems that traffic lights are purely advisory.
Just like the first time I saw it, the Great Wall simply blows you away. It is an amazing achievement, admittedly at the cost of many many lives. We also did the usual.....Ming Tombs, Forbidden City, Tienanmen Square etc. We had some good meals, but all in all I think Hong Kong offers more in terms of Chinese cuisine (my opinion)