Our flight from Detroit to Toyko was delayed 3 hours because repairs had to be made to one of the engines on the plane. We were all on board, and they kept us on board trying to save the time of reboarding everyone. This meant we were on this plane for over 16 hours and landed the same time our next flight was taking off. We were with 3 of the other families adopting and all had to spend Thursday night in Tokyo. After being on flights all day+ the bed felt extra comfortable in Tokyo, and we arrived at our Biejing Hotel about 4 pm on Friday. We had an hour at the hotel and then went to the acrobatics show tonight. The show was wonderful, but Anna got scared with the intense music so I took her out in the lobby for a few minutes. Anna was so tired she ended up sleeping during most of the show and is asleep in bed even though it is only 7pm here. I think it will be dinner in tonight - peanut butter crackers. Tomorrow we tour from 8:30am- 5:30pm so it will be a full day at the Great Wall, the Summer Palace, and seeing the location of the summer Olympics.
Anna was so excited when we did finally arrive in Biejing that she had trouble walking straight - she only wanted to dance in circles and celebrate. We are all doing well and are counting down until Monday to see Grace.
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I'm so happy you made it!! And, that Anna is thrilled to be in China. We are looking forward to "seeing" baby Grace in your arms very, very soon!!
blessings,
Cathy
Glad you made it Deb! Your flight experience reminds me of the last time that Clifford and I took kids to Europe. We had left Rome for a 9-hr trip to Newark which landed on time. Our plane to Indy was delayed an hour but we couldn't let the kids roam because the airlines didn't know what time they'd put us on the plane. After they did and we taxied out to get in line we ended up sitting on the tarmac for 5 hours. We had drinks and two packets of pretzels the whole time. The same thing happened in that they wouldn't take us back in case the weather cleared - we didn't want to lose our place in line. Luckily I was seated by some kids who had a DVD player and we watched a couple of movies.
It looks like you're having a blast. I'm so happy for you.
xxoo
kim
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