After a long day (24 hours of travel, with no night after gaining 13 hours) we made it to our hotel in Beijing! There were FOUR other adoptive families on our flight! We met two of them before departure, which was fun, and we met the other two after arrival when we found they are with our agency and part of our travel group! It's neat to share this experience with others, and talk about our timeline stats and pictures. Everyone's story is unique!
On the way to our hotel our guide told us that we picked a GREAT week to come to Beijing! Because of the recent APEC summit the city wanted to clean up the air for the delegates arriving (maybe you heard about it on the news...Pres. Obama was in attendance) so they had many factories take a break for a week. It lifted the smog, and the sky is blue, which is rare for this city. He said the locals are calling it "APEC blue" and they are so excited about it that they joke they also want to host "BPEC" and "CPEC" and "DPEC". 😄
Our hotel is nice and we managed to get enough hours of sleep to hopefully get over jetlag and into the right time zone. Today and tomorrow we are touring Bejing. I'm sure we will have photos to share! We meet our daughter on Monday! Can't wait for that moment!!!
God is answering prayers! Thank you so much. I was a little sad to say goodbye to our kids, and worried they might cry when we left, but instead there was nothing but excitement in our house! They are so happy that we are bringing their sister home! (And they were excited about Grandma & Grandpa being there!)
