Hi Everyone!
We safely arrived in Beijing last night. We got to our hotel around 4:00pm (Beijing time) so that made it about a 24 hour trip from our house to our hotel. We are 12 hours ahead of Eastern Time so I guess that means we're living the future over here and I'm typing this after living though a day you haven't even woken up for yet!!
Everything is going well. We all slept fairly well and did some touring today. We first visited the Forbidden City and then the Summer Palace. It was a little rainy but I guess it's been really hot so we gladly took the rain because that also meant it was cooler outside.
Tomorrow we will go to the Great Wall and Hutong Lane (famous shopping street).
On Saturday we have a meeting with a Holt Rep. We fly up to Changchun on Sunday.
So, all is well. Everyone is healthy and happy. Jan took a family picture of us at the Summer Palace but Margaret insisted it wasn't really a family picture and we'd have to get one of those later in the trip when it's really a complete family. How sweet of her.
I think we are going to try to get some Peking Duck tonight. Yum!
Love you all, and thanks for commenting. For some reason the blog isn't showing the comments. If anyone can tell me how to change that so they show on the blog page, please let me know. We can read them but they just don't show by our posts.
Bye from Beijing,
Ann, Guy.....