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Originally posted on Saturday, November 5, 2005
Saturday, November 05, 2005 8:10 AM CST
Subject: Ni Hao (Hello) from Beijing
Hi all,
Well, we made it. We left our house at 3:30 am on Friday morning. Our flight left Fort Wayne on time at 6:00 am. Steve says he now knows what it is like to land on an air craft carrier. We had one of the hardest landing in Chicago that we have ever experienced.
We met up with three of the families in Chicago who will be with us for a portion of our trip. They all seem to be very nice people. I'm sure we will enjoy sharing our trip with them. The flight from Chicago to Beijing was about 13 hours. It was long, but uneventful. Our guide, Helen, met us at the airport and got us all settled into our hotel rooms here at the Wangfujing Grand Hotel. When we walked into the lobby of our hotel Mei, a member of the CWA China program, was here to meet us. She is so nice and will be accompanying the rest of our group to Nanchang, while Steve and I remain here in Beijing with Nikole.
We all met in the lobby at 6:30 pm to go to dinner together, and got to meet another family who will be with our group for the next two weeks as well. They flew by a different airlines, so they arrived in Beijing last night.
Dinner was at a restaurant in another hotel which was about a 10 minute walk from here. We got to experience the popular Hot Pot dinner which is very popular here in Beijing. They supply you with a small burner that has a small pot of vegetable broth boiling in it. And there are various vegetables and meats that you cook in your
boiling broth.
Now for the bad news. As we were unpacking our laptop to post this message, we discovered that the power converter will not accept the plug for our laptop. So we are currently posting this message from the business center of our hotel. We are going to see if we can remedy this problem tomorrow, but if we can not, we probably will not be able to post any photos until we get home.
Tomorrow we will be going to the Great Wall, the Summer Palace and the Pearl Factory. It should be a very busy day.
Hope you are all doing well. Emilie, mommy and daddy miss you and love you very much!
Steve and Lisa
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