We're in China

Well we got to Beijing last night around 10. Our total travel time was around 25 hours, 20 of those in airplanes. The flights weren't bad. The plane for the 12 hour flight had plenty of leg room and Julie & I slept quite a bit. Alex, however, didn't sleep as much so he says that plane was the worst.

We got settled in the hotel about 11, called our parents on skyepe and went to bed. Our hotel is on the outskirts of Beijing. We got up this morning and hit the breakfast buffet, which was good. It was a little odd to see noodles, fried rice and baked beans on a breakfast buffet, but there was enough familiar stuff to make it good for us.

We met Sherry, the guide our adoption agency has provided for Beijing. She gave us a quick run-down of things, but had the 12 other families from our agency arriving today, so she had a full day and set us off on our own. We walked around for about half an hour and then ate lunch at a Pizza Hut. We got the "American Special" - a pepperoni pan pizza. There were many other choices, but this seemed safe for our tender American stomachs.

After that we stopped in at Carefore, which is like wal-mart but we've heard very different. We didn't look around a whole lot, so we didn't see anything unusual.

We came back to the hotel and fell asleep and slept through supper. Tomorrow we head to the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square with all of the other families. We'll take lots of pictures and hopefully some video to put on here tomorrow night.

We're down to just 2 1/2 days until we meet our daughter!