Grace Finds a Home

Hello friends and family, we have arrived safely in Beijing, China. We flew from Charlotte to Newark, NJ and then 14 hours non-stop to Beijing. The flight takes you over Canada, Greenland, the North Pole, Russia, then China. We landed about 3:00 pm local time on November 6. That's 13 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time. I am writing this at 6:00 am on Nov 7. Today we are touring Beijing. We will go to the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, and take a Rickshaw tour of downtown. Last night, we ate at Pizza Hut. The pizza was OK, but nothing like Pizza Hut back home. Our first impressions of Beijing: it seems like a very clean city (except for the air). Very modern, and the people very friendly and accepting of Americans. We will be traveling with four other couples from around the US who are also adopting. We met one of them last night, the Moyers from Pennsylvania, who seem very nice.
Today we hope to take some pictures and maybe tonight when we get back we will post them. Watch this space...we meet our daughter for the first time on Monday.