Family Vacation (Part I)
Hello, fellow readers. At last, I'm gonna blog about my Beijing trip. In case you've forgotten, I went overseas last December from a period of 5 Jan to 14 Jan to Beijing. Right after we landed back in Singapore, we packed our luggage again and headed off to Genting in the night. I shall not update this space on the Genting trip but simply concentrate on the Beijing trip will do. So do keep yourselves occupied with this very long post on my family vacation. 
P.S. This blog post will be split into 2 or 3 posts.
Day 1
Upon checking that we had everything in place, we left home and took a cab to Changi Airport. We reached there at about 10PM, one hour before our flight at 11.30PM. We checked in and then shopped at the Duty-Free stores.
When it was time to board the plane, we went ahead to do the necessary security checks. Our seating location was pretty good because we got to seat in the 5 row seats. Bid goodbye to Singapore and off we flew to Beijing!
This was supposed to be our breakfast but the food was served at 1AM, 1 hour after our plane took off. Dumb or what?
I don't really like long flights because I can't really fall asleep in the plane and what's worse is that there is nothing much I can do to kill time. The duration from Singapore to Beijing was about 6 hours, almost the same for Korea. So can you imagine how elated I was when we landed in Beijing after 6 hours?
Oh, and I really need to comment on the services provided by the air-stewardess from China Airline. Or rather, complain and pin-point on the horrible attitude. Seriously, their services was downright bad. It was the first time receiving such improper services even after I've taken Singapore Airlines(SQ), Korean Air and Tiger Airways. Have you ever seen the air-stewardess sleeping during our flight as if they are the passengers themselves? Their job is to serve the passengers on the plane! But after giving out the food and drinks, they went to sleep! Because of this, passengers had to do self-service on the beverages that they needed afterwards. Someone should really feedback on this. 
Day 2
It was around 6AM when we reached Beijing and the sky was already bright. Beijing and Korea's skies brighten 2 hours earlier and darkens 2 hours earlier as compared to Singapore. It was kinda weird for us because we were not used to it. We then awaited for the tour guide and coach to bring us to our hotel.
Their sky train.
While walking towards the bus...
Winter trees!
Finally, we reached our 5-star hotel! It's called Four Points by Sheraton.
There was this cute little booth selling plush toys!
This was how our hotel lobby looked like.
Checked into our hotel rooms!
The hotel looks damn grand.~
There was a bath tub! Yay!
See through toilet?!
Not to worry! There is an electronic-operated curtain.
Parent's hotel room.
There's an electronic weighing balance. Every night we got back into our hotel, I would measure my weight and I actually gained 1kg every time I weighed!!
2 bath robes.~
Took a hot and refreshing bath...
Blowed dry our hair.
Ready to head out again to follow up on our itinerary!
The street name where our hotel was located at.
Did some sightseeing in the bus.
Had our first meal at this place!
Felt like VIPs because there was nobody in the restaurant except us.
The soup was good!
My favourite vegetable!!
We ate like a horse because we didn't have breakfast so we were starving!
Our next stop was Yashow clothing for shopping.~
There was nothing much to buy over there so we went to Coldstone Creamery for a drink. :D
Dinner at this place!
The day ended pretty fast. We only went to one destination and night had come already.~
Day 3
Cute doggie!
Breathtaking scenery.
First destination of the day.
Mimmie tried the bracelet.
Our bus... It was a small one because our tour group was mini.
Anyone can make a guess what that is?
Here's the answer to that question. The Great Wall!
Imma Mongolian kid. HAHA.
We were the only family who climbed the Great Wall. The rest from our tour group gave up. What a waste eh.
Although it was a challenging task to climb the Great Wall, it was a wonderful experience. No wonder the enemies surrendered when they climbed this, it was not as easy as it seemed. The stairs were not even, some had very huge gaps and were really steep. Going up was difficult but it wasn't as bad as going down...
1/4 of the mountain...
We sketched our names on the walls, to prove that we had been there before. Haha.
We actually climbed up this super steep flight of stairs to see the scenery and to sketch our names. Mimmie and sista had problems going back down because they have phobia of heights.
Went into this small shop to have a cup of hot drink. At first my parents wanted to do this certificate thingy to keep it as a memory. We expected it to be in some A4 size photo frame but the sample turned out to be a card and the photo was passport sized. The photo can only fit 2 people. It was ridiculous so we didn't get it. I mean who would see that card if you were to display it?!
Because of time factor, we stopped halfway and climbed down the mountain.
All of us perspired even though the weather was at -6 degree celcius!
Poor security guard almost freezing to death...
Wemt for lunch at this place.~
The cup is so small and cute!!!
Beautiful house, it looks so warm and cosy.~
Next up was ice-skating!! :D
All of us went to ice-skate except mom. The first and previous time I went for ice-skating was in Korea! Even though it was my first time, I skated like a professional and didn't fall on my feet! This time, I was even more experienced, maybe because it was my second time. Not only did I not fall, I even skated down the slope 5 times! WOO.
This is the pro here~!
Sista underwent some training. It has to be paid though...
After skating, we went for some tea session at Dr. Tea.
After much introduction of the different tea and the advantages of it, we bought quite a lot, worth $400+. But until now, we only drank the tea once...
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Large quantity of Xiao LongBao! (Y)
There were birds in the restaurant...
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