Asia Bound

Barbara and I have been looking into taking a vacation. I'm getting paid out on my vacation and we figured that we would go somewhere and have a good time. At first it looked like we were going to Jamaica. But, the agent we were dealing with moved the price up and up. In the end, it became more than we really wanted to spend.

After that, I had her convinced to head down to Mexico to the Barcelo Maya resort. I spent 11 days down there diving and having fun in the sun a couple years ago. I would go back there in a heartbeat. However, then the swine flu hit. Bah! I figured that we could get a heck of a deal on the resort if everyone else is pulling out of their vacation. Well, many of the vacation packages were canceling their flights. So, back to the drawing board.

I spent a bit of time looking at various places in Europe. Italy, Spain or France were all on the list. However, while reading through the many different blogs that I read, I ran across an interesting offer. I found a trip to China that was within our vacation budget. Beijing, Xi'an and Shanghai. I forwarded the link to Barbara just to get an initial reaction from her. Needless to say, it was positive.

So, after discussing it with her over dinner, the decision was made. The next day the deal was struck. So, at the end of September, Barbara and I fly to China to visit the Great Wall!!