Hello from Beijing!

We arrived last night at 9pm.. about an hour later than we were supposed to.  What a crazy travel day.  First in Atlanta.. we arrived on time.  honest we did.  Once at the gate they were starting to board folks already and we still didn't have seat assignments.. oh no the flight was oversold.  We waited and waited.. finally we were able to board.  They closed the doors behind us!  We were given a seat in row 12. 28 & 33.  OMG soo.. I had David sit in row 12, turns out it was comfort plus.. which is good since he's a bigger person than Robyn and I.  Once I got to row 28 I kindly asked the woman if she wouldn't mind moving to row 33.. and she was like SURE!  omg awesome.  So Robyn and I had all the entertainment stuff and David had the food.  ug.  I ran his earphones up to him and we did pretty dang well.  I also ran up to get the sandwiches we had brought to eat on this first leg to Seattle.  Robyn did well.. she started to get really fidgety at the 3.5hr mark.. which totally worried me!

Once in Seattle we met up with David and I was craving a smoothie!  So we took three airport shuttles over to terminal C for a raspberry,blueberry,strawberry smoothie.  Totally hit the spot.  We hung out a bit, did a few updates to family and such as we'd be off line while on the plane.

We boarded at 3pm-ish.. and didn't take off until almost 5pm.  They had to reconcile baggage and people. Some people were not on board but their luggage was.. so we could hear the crew under the plane moving stuff around taking those suitcases off the plane.  Robyn fell asleep waiting to take off.. then once in the are we were given our snack first, then dinner.  I shoved a few spoonfuls of Manicotti into Robyn as she was half asleep.. then she dozed some more.  I guess 3 hrs???  then I fell asleep.  We had the flight attendants take the stuff that would spoil and hung onto the roll and other yummies that came with the meal.  She ate while I napped.  then for the next 7hrs it was napping, watching tv and chillin.  I actually slept quite a bit as well as Robyn.  We landed around 9pm.  Immigration and Customs went well, and YAY our stuff made it too!

We met William in the terminal and he gave us a ride in his boss's Mercedes!!!  to the hotel.. which is VERY nice.  ya gotta look this one up on the internet.. crazy large room!  AND A washer/dryer!  yes we are doing laundry right now.  I know shut up!  I brought laundry soap in case I needed to hand wash stuff.. not expecting a washing/dryer machine.  It does both!  So washing stuff so we have a few more days of clothes before having to wash more.  It turns out it's expensive to have stuff washed in Zhengzhou.  

Today we went to the Great Wall.. we met the other families on the trip.  There is a ten year old girl named Ava, who is also from China here with her parents and a few other kids.  Nice folks!  It's great to have other people to hang with this time around!  anyway it was a bus strip to the wall.. the Juyongguan part of the wall.  Ok first thing, it's cold.. second.. it was snowing.  Makes for walking a steep concrete structure an interesting and dangerous climb.  We had two hours.. we walked around, took some pictures.. had folks want pictures with us!  Very very cool.. we couldn't see much beyond what was right there in the valley, because of the low clouds and snow, but wow.. We can say we've been to the Great Wall!

Afterwards it was a yummy lunch at the Jade tourist trap.. and the rest of the gang went to the acrobatic show, we saw it last time.. and we are here hanging in the room doing laundry... cleaning up and chillin. 

Sorry no pictures with this post, we're having attachment size issues. We'll get it figured out and get them posted.