I'm back!

Whew! I just got back from 2 weeks in Beijing and 1 week in Tokyo. Well, I've really been back for a week and a half, but now I'm ready to post some photos and write about my trip. Anyways, I loved my trip and had tons of fun, ate lots of wonderful and delicious food, and hopefully came back with some good photos. Here's one to start everything off. It was taken at the Forbidden City, which served as the home to the Emperor of China for almost 5 centuries. You can read more about this place on Wikipedia but all I have to say is that this place is enormous (~1800 acres). I don't remember it being this big when I was little, but man is it huge. Anyways, here's the pic: