Greetings everyone! We arrived in Beijing yesterday (or was it today??) Anyway, in our time zone it is Saturday the 19th. Our flight over was smooth enough, especially as, due to the airline overbooking, our seats were assigned to us and a Chinese pair. Suddenly we were "bumped" to Business class! It was pretty neat--we could recline our seats, we had fliet mignon for dinner, complimentary everything . . . We pitied our poor traveling companions, stuck in "steerage" eating beans and franks!!
So we arrived relatively rested (we actually slept part of the way) and arrived in Beijing at about 3:30 pm their time (2:30 AM EST) on Friday. We were met by Joy, a Bethany representative and taken through the worst traffic I have ever seen to our Hotel (where I am writing this). It is very comfortable, and we are meeting the other families in our travel group. Several of them are back for a second (or third!) adoption. Beijing (at least what we have seen so far) is VERY modern and Western (lots of McDonalds, Pizza Huts, etc.) but at Joy's suggestion we ate at a place called "Beautiful South" which featured real Cantonese cuisine. It was awesome (though we passed on the braised shark's lips).
We are having a GREAT time so far, and my next post will have photos.
Watch this space!
2 comments:
Im so excited for you!!!
We are so glad you got bumped! Mama said she was glad she didn't have to go through all that traffic. She was looking at the picture that you think is Elizabeth and wants you to bring the baby in the play pen back too! Have fun the next couple of days before you life changes forever!!!!!!!!!! love ya, Mama & Margaret
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