Arriving in Sri Lanka

We are now safely home, but we still want to tell you all about our lovely week in Sri Lanka.
We left Beijing at the end of February. When we looked out our window in the morning, we saw the vision to the right. The building you can just barely see is the apartment tower about 50 feet from our building. It was a little dark and smoggy outside in case you can't tell from the picture which was taken after 8am - well after the sun had risen.
Undaunted, and unwisely as it turned out, we decided to head out to the airport smog or no smog. 7 hours after we arrived, the airport check-in counters and airplane strips opened and we were able to start the next step in our journey.

We finally arrived at the hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka around 2am, or maybe it was 3am - who could tell at that point? We were taken to our room where we quickly passed out listening to the sound of waves crashing somewhere nearby. We couldn't see much that night, but this was what we saw when we woke up to the next morning. What a beautiful day!
You can see more photos from our trip here.