Thursday, November 04, 2004

Arriving in Beijing, China

November 4, 2004

When we landed in China, there was a lot of confusion. We met our friends from New Hampshire and collected our luggage. The airport is big and there were lots of people so we somehow lost each other. After clearing customs, we found them again and stood waiting for a representative from our adoption agency to meet us. While waiting I purchased several phone cards that we could use to phone home. We finally found Sabrina, our CHI representative. SHe took us to a van and it was a 40 minute ride to the hotel.

The Beijing Novotel Peace Hotel http://www.beijinghighlights.com/hotels/peacehotel/index.htm is a 5 star hotel. We checked in and our friends finagled it so that we were in the room next to them.. We stayed in room 1114 and they were in room 1117. We dropped our stuff in the room and all four of us went to dinner. We thought we would take it easy tomorrow and just hang around and shop near the stores by the hotel because November 6th was our big touring day of the Great Wall of China!

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