Pakenheimer.com is back up again! We are hoping to actually update the site from now on, hopefully start posting photos and perhaps a separate blog for our time in Beijing.

Beijing is treating us well. After a frustrating apartment search, we found a place and moved in last week. It's a small studio that looks like an Ikea showroom in a pretty new complex called MOMA (this is a good one, you should all the other names of building here, it's quite hilarious). Beijing is definitely getting into the one-stop shopping. They have some Walmart-like supermarkets, Ikea, big fancy American-style malls, etc.

We haven't seen much of the tourist sites other than the Temple of Heaven - which is under renovations so it wasn't all that nice but we enjoyed strolling in the enormous, lush garden surrounding the temple. We also did a 3-hour walk on the JinShanLing to SiMaTai section of the Great Wall. It was quite nice to be out in the mountains and to see that the wall is still relatively un-touched.

Work was a little slow for both of us but its just picking up steam now! Speaking of which, I need to get back to work! Lots more to tell about BJ but will have to wait for another time!