Our first experience taking Air China. The price difference of $300 per person finalises our decision to take Air China. It didn't have the frills of a individual tv but it brought us safely to Singapore! Ours was a midnight flight and we psyched ourselves to sleep on the plane in order to max our time in sunny Singapore.

Hong Teck and me took an afternoon to look at a couple of language schools for our children and found an ideal one - Beijing Mandarin School in 国贸 (guomao) zone where the financial district lies. In the evening, we were off to Singapore to see our loved ones and to enjoy the dozens of local food that we so missed when we were living in London. An exhibit in the Terminal 3 of Beijing Airport - the Terracotta warriors.

Arrived Beijing Terminal 3 in the wee hours of the morning. I awed in the size of the airport and how spanking clean the entire airport is. Within the terminal, we had to take an mini version of the train to retrieve our luggage. As I have coaxed our children to sleep on the plane, we managed to get them to walk to the exit of the airport where our dear friend, John greeted us.

We headed towards the north of Beijing, the Shunyi zone where John has just moved into his new apartment last year. The estate is named 优山美地，which means Beautiful place with mountains. With an hour rest and emptying our luggage with gifts for John and his family. We went to a shopping mall for lunch. Lunch was in a Yunan restaurant in a Capital Land mall called 嘉茂。This picture was taken when our children was waiting to try the new cuisine.