Ni hao from Beijing!

Good morning from Beijing! We arrived safely last night after a LONG day of travel. Did I say it was LONG? But we are safe and we had no problems so we are thankful for that.

We quickly found our guide at the airport and she had us to the hotel shortly after. After getting loaded into the van, she looked at Amy and I and asked if she could ask a personal question. Figuring it couldn't be too bad we agreed. She nervously asked "Are you Christian?". We smiled and said yes and she smiled with relief. She went on to tell us that she gets very excited for Chinese children who go to Christian homes. She was relieved that Samuel would grow up and learn about his Savior.

It was about 5pm by the time we got settled in (3am KC time). Needless to say we were exhausted and were both crashed by 7pm and slept til about 30 minutes ago. It is about 6:30am Saturday morning as I writing this (4:30pm Friday KC time). So we are off to a pretty good start with the time change.

We are headed down to breakfast now. Today we will get to see the Great Wall, the Forbidden CIty, and Tiananmen Square. So the next post will hopefully have some great pictures.

I attached two pictures. Both are from our hotel window. We are on the 10th floor. One picture would have been enough, but somebody spotted a Starbucks and insisted I post that too :)

We are in CHINA! I still can't believe it. We couldn't be more excited. We saw a little boy on the plane into Beijing that was about Samuel's size. During the long flight he would walk laps up and down the isles with his mom. We couldn't help but smile every time we saw him and think how close we are to having Samuel.

We are so excited and thankful to be on this journey. Thank you for sharing it with us. Until next time . . .