We are in Beijing!

It was a long day of traveling but we are here! The city is not nearly as crowded as I thought it would be but Tom, our guide says that tomorrow when we visit the Forbidden City it will be very crowded. We had dinner at a nearby restaurant and it was wonderful! Ron is already asleep. I'm not far behind him.


Next to me on the plane was Li You who is a professor at Georgia Tech. His family lives in China and he is going home for a visit. He makes this flight several times a year. Yikes! Our flight was overbooked and there wasn't an empty seat. Other than being so long, it was fine. We had an uneventful flight to Chicago from OKC. Li You was very friendly and asked us all about our trip. He was very excited to hear about our adoption. He stayed with us as we got through customs and was going to take us home if our guide wasn't there. He gave us his emai address and wants to see picturs of Nathan.









When we got to our hotel room we couldn't get any of the lights to come on. We had to have it explained that our door card has to be inserted into a slot before the lights will work. I've never seen this before but I found it ingenious.