We are here!!

Well we made it !!! Thank you guys for all of your prayer, we needed it!

For those of you interested in the details of flight, it goes something like this... we left our home at 5:00 AM and began flight at 8:00 AM to Detroit, where we connected our next flight to Tokyo which took around 16 hours, that was just horrible !! because I am one of those people who cannot sleep on a plane. Next time I am medicating! We connected to another flight which took us to Beijing. The connection there in Japan was a fiasco, because we all had to go back through customs and bag checks , security checks etc. a long walk as a group like mice channeling through a maze of glass walled corridors only to go from one plane to another. Crazy I thought, but hey, who cares as long as we get on the next plane before it leaves. The next flight took around 5 hours. We got to Beijing on the next day, (30th on Jan. ) at around 9:30 PM China time.

We got our luggage and walked into a crowd of Chinese people all holding signs with different names on them. We saw our guide only because she called out to us. I have to say it was kinda fun , we sorta felt famous or something, with everyone looking at us and calling to us to come towards their signs as if they were all happy to see us. They were the first happy faces I had seen in the last 30 hours, I can tell you!

Our guide is just great, her name is Penny she is standing in the lobby of the hotel waiting for us to go sight seeing now. She and Jerry the driver picked us up from the airport and even took us to a small shop to get some soda and other things on the way to the hotel.

Today the driver and Penny will take us to the Forbidden city and who knows? I need to go now and I will write later more. Right now I have a migrain and need medicine before we leave.


See ya,
Nour