Well, here we are! Who would have thought this moment would finally come!! The tv display in the airplane read: "Distance to destination: 6,242 miles" I guess I hadn't really considered how far away China really is!!Everything went well with our travel-I know so many of you were praying and we appreciate all of your blessings. We got to the airport with hours to spare. The plane took off at 1:40 am Wed morning. At about 3:00 am, they served us pork and noodles--what else do you eat at 3:00am??!! We landed in Beijing after about 13 hours and after going through customs and claiming our bags, we were met by our CCAI representative, Christy. She gave us some interesting information about Beijing and the upcoming Olympics as we rode to our hotel. We are staying in the Holiday Inn Beijing. It's very nice. We had an excellent breakfast from the buffet. Lots of American choices: Gary had eggs, pancakes, sausage and bacon. Jessie and I liked the dumplings and fried noodles the best. I'm unable to post pictures at the moment, as our new computer is not recognizing the memory card or the camera plug. Hopefully, our computer genius (Jason) will be able to help us remotely!!
Our itinerary for our time in Beijing is as follows:
Tomorrow (Friday): Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Lunch, Hutong Tour,
Acrobatics, Peking Duck Dinner,
Saturday: Jade Carving factory, Great Wall, lunch & dinner
We'll post more messages and hopefully, some pictures very soon. Miss you all--time to go get some rest.
PS--we are not able to view comments on the blog due to the internet firewall protections in China. Please do send us a direct e-mail; we'd love to hear from you!
Ninacesena@yahoo.com
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Nina, so glad you arrived. I can't wait to follow the rest of your journey!!!
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