Wow- We Just Traveled Half Way Around The World

After over 20 hours of travel time we made it to our Beijing hotel around 11:30pm on Thursday night.  All in all, it was a good trip and we really can't complain...but I will a little anyway :-)  Our Delta flight from Atlanta to Seattle was great - the 5 hour flight gave us a plane with personal entertainment options for music, movies and TV.  Conner was able to get his Cartoon Network fix to cover the next two weeks allowing Tommy to sleep after pulling an all nighter trying to get everything done before we left.  I had a window seat in the row in front of Tommy and Conner, no one next to me and selected the "Best of Journey" soundtrack that I haven't heard since I traded in my Oldsmobile with that CD still in the car.  The Seattle to Beijing flight was a different story...the 12 hour flight gave us a very old and outdated plane with tv monitors hanging down from the ceiling...did I mention that they ran into some technical issues and couldn't run movies for like 5 hours into the flight.  While they couldn't provide entertainment. they were still able to provide tracking of where we were in the flight path which when you are only 2 hours into a 12 hour flight....is it not real motivating.  Tommy ended up in the seat where the seat in front of him was broken and allowed the seat to recline all the way into his lap.  Conner was a real trooper through this flight - we were all so tired that we ended up sleeping most of the time in between the meal, midnight snack and breakfast events.  The flight attendants were great and made sure that Conner had something more appealing for kids to eat.  Conner definetly earned his Delta Wings on this trip....only 4 more flights to take this trip.

On a positive note, we got to meet the other 2 families from our adoption agency who will be touring with us this weekend before they go meet their daughters.  Our touring guide Charlotte is great and very knowledgable so we are in good hands.  Today we will be taking a van tour to the Great Wall of China which is about 2 hours away from Beijing so we should have some pictures later to share.   It is 6:30am as I write this update and I have been up since 4:00am ...I am ready for the breakfast buffet to open so I can grab a cup of coffee.  Luckily Conner is still sleeping so he will be rested for the Great Wall today.   We will post more pictures after our tour today.