Getting There

Sunday Morning we left on our adventure to China. It was really hard to leave the boys at home and I was REALLY wishing they were coming with us.  Colton came to me with crocodile tears saying he really wanted to come, but didn't want to get any shots.  :(  It ripped my heart out and I don't think I'll get it back until we get back home.  Bradyn just didn't want to say goodbye. The trip over was fairly uneventful.  I was entertained by the cute baby accross from me, and Abri was entertained by a little boy in front of her named Jeffrey. We landed in Tokyo, then flew to Beijing.  On this flight, we got talked about quite a bit by the folks we were sitting by.  The guy sitting by Abri even gave us his business card with his email address.  We got to fly over Korea (South we think, but not for sure).  Korea was lit up so bright!  Very wierd to be looking down at Korea.  It's a good thing WACAP decided to have their guide take us to the hotel that night in Beijing, because I don't know that we would have made it otherwise.  Our flight arrived late, so we wouldn't have been able to use the free hotel shuttle and would have had to take a taxi.  That would have been a little scary in Beijing at night. We only had about 4 hours to sleep at the hotel, which wasn't very restful, but at least the beds were comfy.  The next morning we had to get up early to head to the airport.  Driving through Beijing back to the hotel it was still dark, but starting to get light.  There were bicycles everywhere and people starting to be out and about.  Many men with those big wheelbarrow things. At the airport, we kind of wandered a bit, but eventually got to our gate.  From the gate we had to crowd onto a bus and ride *forever* to our plane to Harbin.  We were nearly the last ones on the plane because we just don't have the crowding skills that the people here seem to have.  :)  I was worried there wouldn't be room for our carry on luggage by the time we got on there, but there was. We flew over some mountains, and then it was flat, and then there was snow, but not a whole lot.  Getting off the plane in Harbin, it was below freezing.  So cold!