We Made It!

After a very long plane ride with very little sleep for any of us, we are here in Beijing. John now has a full blown cold and my bronchitis is clearing up so we are basically both worn out. Miss Lily is full steam ahead! We quickly met up with Kim and Steve from Missouri and Becky and Antonio and Vivi from Chicago. Lily and Vivi hit it off from the start! It was very helpful to have both of them on the same flight so they could have some play time together. I took a picture of the back of their heads while they were working intently on play-dough masterpieces.
We arrived in Beijing 30 mins ahead of schedule. We also picked the first day that Beijing opened the new terminal in preparation for the Olympics. It seemed to take forever to get through immigration. The man would look at your passport and then look at you and back and forth until he was satisfied it was really you. He even made me take Lily's fingers out of her mouth so he could see her full face. (Those fingers make a great disguise!)
We met up with our CHI guide Elsie and off we went to the hotel, the Wangfujing. We stayed up long enough to hike over to the closest C-store for some bottled water and bowls of dried noodles. By 7pm Miss Lily was fast asleep and we were not far behind. At 2am however, she was up and ready to roll. We managed to keep her occupied with Chinese tv and DVDs until breakfast at 6:30am. We are heading out to tour all day so I'll post more later. Just wanted to let everyone know we are safe and sound.