Saturday, May 3, 2008Beijing
Managed to find my way through immigration, to a taxi, and flashed my little Mandarin map of the Westin location to the driver. Next stop: Heaven on earth.
No hotel ever looked so good.
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Cinda Baxter
- Retail Enabler
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- I wear a lot of hats: Consultant (Always Upward); Contributing Editor (Gifts and Decorative Accessories Magazine); retail networks founder (RetailSpeaks, Brilliant Ink, the Print Lab); seated member on a bunch of national boards; and chocolate junkie. Some days, I wear all the hats at once. Just goes to show that good chocolate makes all things possible.
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- Beijing, Baby
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