Getting to Mongolia

So I left from Denver on Wednesday to go to Ulaanbaatar. I flew from Denver to San Francisco to Beijing to Ulaanbaatar. The trip was relatively easy with the exception of the 13 hour layover in Beijing. I spent most of the time hanging out in one of the two Starbucks in the airport. My favorite part of the layover was dinner. I went to a Thai restaurant where the current special was "Fungus is Hot Pot". Needless to say, I didn't order that. After the 13 hours, I got onto the flight to Ulaanbaatar and I don't think there were more than 4 or 5 Mongolians on the flight. The guy sitting next to me was from Birmingham, Alabama. After all that I made it to UB with no problems.