Thursday,
October 30, 2008
WE'RE HERE!
Well, we finally made it to Beijing!! We left home around
6:45 Atlanta time on Wednesday the 29th and we are finally
in Beijing, at 11:30 Thursday night (China time). We made
it to the airport in Atlanta with plenty of time to spare,
which was fortunate since it took us quite awhile to get
through security. It turns out the more clothing you wear
the more you have to take off (coats, shoes and belts for
all) and the more bags you pack the more you have to
UNPACK in order for them to inspect. And anyone who knows
the Hornbuckles knows that between the 5 of us we had
quite a few bags. But we survived the ordeal and managed
to make it onto the plane in plenty of time. We arrived in
Detroit in a few hours and then caught a flight to Tokyo,
Japan which seemed to last forever. I can honestly say
that was the longest 13 hours of my life and I’m pretty
sure everyone else would agree. But we did eventually make
it to Tokyo and then on to Beijing, where we can get some
much needed rest, hopefully.
We have a free day tomorrow before the rest of the group
joins us, so probably there will be some exploring and
shopping in our future after we recover from travel. We
discovered quite by accident that Jamie and I can still
receive e-mail messages on our blackberries, so if anyone
e-mails us directly we can reply from there. By the way,
to avoid confusion for the AWAA families following along,
when I refer to Jamie it is my husband and any reference
to Larry will be regarding my father-in-law. They are both
Larry James and it gets confusing at times since Jamie
does go by Larry at work. Not many exciting pictures to
post at this point, but I’ll give it a shot. Note the
squatty potty at the Beijing airport- I tried to convince
MeMe to practice on that one since no doubt we will
encounter some in places where we won’t have a choice but
to use them. She wasn’t going for it, though. Holt
volunteered to demonstrate for photos but we declined his
offer. You can thank us later.
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After 23 hours of travel
Our first squatty potty
View from the plane
Our room at last |
