Friday, March 12, 2010

Well, we have arrived in Beijing safe and sound. We've been here less than an hour, I've already had a shower and Tori is already fast asleep. We have opted not to go out looking for food tonight. I've been up for 29 hours straight and only had about 2 hours sleep the night before. YIKES! the bed is looking inviting even though it is smaller than our queen size bed at home. (Looks like a twin even though they called it a double.)

Our flights were uneventful. Tori made out fine on the flight from F'ton to Toronto. The gravol may have helped, but it was a smooth ride.

When we landed in Toronto we had time to stop for some breakfast before our next flight left. While we were at Tim Hortons (go figure, huh...) I saw a family and wondered if it might be the other family coming to Beijing with us.

We saw them again in Vancouver and that's where we introduced ourselves to them. We didn't have seats near them on the plane. But we've had lots of time to get to know each other at the Beijing airport.

We went through customs together and then collected our baggage together. And together we searched for missing luggage. Both of us had lost our strollers that we had checked. After about 45 minutes we were able to find them. Then it was out to meet our guide, Tingting. She was beginning to get worried that we had left the airport without her!

Tingting had a shuttle for us to take us to the hotel. It was about an hour's drive. The hotel is beautiful. (But I'm too tired to explore tonight.) Tomorrow we'll meet Tingting in the hotel lobby and do a little sightseeing.

Enjoy your day everyone. I'm going to enjoy my night. Love to all.
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  1. JNasonMarch 12, 2010 at 1:19 PM

    Glad the flights went well! Enjoy some much deserved rest...then get out there and get some pictures for the rest of us! kidding! :-)

    I can't believe you're actually in China! Just a few more days, and I'll officially and unquestionably be a new Auntie-hurray!!!

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  2. RachaelMarch 12, 2010 at 1:57 PM

    Third try to comment.........

    YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!! So glad to hear you all made it safe to China. What time is it there?? I know I should know but... Did you cross the Intl Date Line? meaning you skipped a day and now it is already tonight? It is so cool when you return because you actually get back close to or before you left. :)

    How exciting that you got to meet the other family also traveling to Beijing to adopt. Hope you get some much needed sleep and I'll be looking forward to reading more updates and pics to follow. :D

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