Hello from the Far East. . .

Hi everyone, we finally made it! Believe it or not, we fared very well. The flight from LA to China was good, although the flight was 15 1/2 hours long, upgrading to business class definately made the difference. I slept about 6-8 hours and thats all I need. Mike slept on and off and we are doing great. Our day started at 4:15am, when my dad picked us up to take us to Orlando for our 7:30 flight. We arrived in LA at 9:30am and left for China at 11:50pm straight to Guangzhou and landed at 6:15am, caught a 8:30 am flight to Beijing and arrived in Beijing at 10am. We got a hotel room for the day in LA to hang out and have lunch. We were NOT about to stay in LAX the entire time. The air traffic controller in LAx had some problems we heard, but we were not affected, we had landed by then.


Our hotel is awesome, I posted some pics of our room. Today we have the day to ourselves to relax and unwind. We meet tonight around 7pm for dinner. I think there is about 8 people in our tour group. Only 4 of us from our adoption agency. We arrived about 11:30am China time. We crossed the international date line, so Tuesday the 8th did not even exist for us! Tommorow we are off to Tiananmen Square, The Forbidden City and an evening dinner Chinese Acrobatics show.

Mike and I just got back from a short walk outside around the hotel. Lots of shops and some grocery stores. We just got back with some water and it is really neat to see the grocery items they have. For instance, they have Lay's potato chips, but Barb-q meat and fish flavor. Needless to say we opted for the plain flavor.

Enjoy the pictures, only a couple days left til we have Mia. I am not sure if we get her the 14th or 15th. Once I know, I will let you guys know.