Travel to China!

Sue and I both had trouble sleeping and were both up before 5:00.  We packed a few last minute things and Cathy McMartin arrived a little after 6:00 AM to pick us up.  We met the Clements family in the check-in line and Ali, quickly got re-acquainted with their twins Alyse and Andrea.  The Clements are the family that traveled with Sue on the original trip to pick up Allison so we were very happy when we found out that they were also going on this trip.  We will be traveling with them the whole way so it is especially nice to see that the girls are getting along extremely well and already starting to have fun.  On the flight they communicated back and forth with their DS devices and seem to be having a lot of fun and laughing.  The flight from Boise to SF was a little late but we arrived in plenty of time for our international flight to Beijing.

The flight from S.F. to Beijing was long but uneventful.  None of us got much sleep but when we got to Beijing we met some other families and adrenaline has kept us going until about now, approximately 8:30 local time.  I took the girls for a swim in the hotel pool while Sue and the Clements went to the local super market and bought plenty of bottled water and a few snacks.  Tomorrow we are scheduled to see the Great Wall in our first excursion.