A lot has happened since I posted- 2 months ago? Monday my son and I met at the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco to apply for a the infamous visa. The visa demands that you show your airline ticket and not only print your itinerary, but show proof that you are booked in hotels for the whole time. You also trust them to hold your passport for the four or five days that it takes to process the visa. We arrived about 10 am- It had opened at 9 am, and they were serving numbers 023, 042, 043, 044, 045. We calculated that in one hour they had taken care of less than 50. Our number was 159, so we calculated that it would be at least 2 pm before we would be seen. We didn't consider the staggered lunch hour.
The vast majority of the people there were Asian and most of those born in China. The women who served us at the window spoke almost indiscernible English. Somehow though our efforts and her efforts of not wanting to encounter any snags, the process only took us about ten minutes.
Incredibly we were out by 2 pm.
Incredibly we were out by 2 pm. 
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