Hello from Beijing!!

We Made it through the 13+ hour flight. It was relatively smooth sailing until the last 45 minutes and the landing was especially rough. It was so bad that Mystina left the flight attendants a little gift in the paper bag (EWWWW!). Other than that and being exhausted (we didn't sleep much on the flight) we are OK.





Our guide Tom met us at the airport and got us to the hotel. We are all checked in and have a few hours to "freshen up".Then we are going to dinner with the other two families in our travel group at 6:00 PM here (AM there). I will try to add some pictures to the post later of our trip. We have experienced the longest day of our lives. We are going on 23 hours of daylight and we have another 4 hours to go.




One more day and a "wake-up day" before we get our little girl. Tomorrow we will be visiting the Great Wall, Tian An Men Square, the Forbidden City and the Jade Factory. It will be a full day so we will post tomorrow evening.

Also, we are not able to view our blog because of the limted internet access here. If you want to send us a message, please email us. We also are getting e-mails from our guestbook entries, so you can post messages there if you wish. Feel free to leave comments, we will definitely read them later.




Update: I have now added some images to the post. Also, I have figured out a way to view comments, so go ahead and post all you want. The images in order of appearance are:

1. Mystina and I at the Airport in Washington D.C.
2. The plane we flew from Washington to Beijing on
3. The Beijing Aiport
4. Tom, our guide while in Beijing
5. The lobby of the hotel (Wangfujing Grand Hotel)
6. View of the Forbidden City from our Hotel window
7. A picture of everyone from our travel group at dinner tonight