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For the flight back to Taipei, we were on an older plane which didn’t have individual video screens, so the girls stood up in their seats to watch the movie screen in the front. Unfortunately, the Chinese government had yet to approve direct over-flights, which made the flight three hours longer that it needed to [...]

After lunch, our China manager gave us a ride to the airport for our return flight to Taipei. The new airport is very modern and commercial. A lot different from when I was here back in 1994. [slideshow]

Before heading to the airport, we visited the VIVA office in Beijing and had lunch with our manager. His wife got the girls some Chinese dolls, which they immediately opened up to play with. [slideshow]

On our last day, we were able to get tickets to the Paralympics and check out the Beijing Olympic complex. We started off in a mob of a line elbowing our way (“boxing-out”) to the entrance. Once in, it was a very impressive view of both the Olympic Stadium (aka Bird’s Nest) and the Aquatic [...]