well we made it! :) Our plane ride was crazy. It was a 777 and it had five seats in the middle and two on each side. I don't even know how long it was but it was a freakin long plane. The flight was even longer though :/ let me tell you, if you want to be more bored and drove insane, fly for 12 hours. It's a killer. truthfully, even though we had movie screens on the back of each seat it was soooo long! ugh! When we flew into Bejing, they had a bunch of nurse people come on the plane and check all our temperatures. If anyone had a fever they had to check them cause if they were suspicious they would quarantine them for a week. My mom almost got quarantined :/ luckily she didn't. The airport was huge and we had to ride a train to get to the main place to get our luggage. once we got our luggage we went to the enterance and there were tons of people! A person from our adoption agency had a sign so we knew who to go with but there were so many people with signs. We did find our agency person and we got on a bus to take us to our hotel. Let me tell you, if you think I am a bad driver...you are definitely wrong. People here are all over the place. They pretty much just go where they want to and honk their horns to warn people. There are tons of people on bikes that I worry will run into the cars or the cars will run into them...which ever way that works.Once a car got really close to hitting our bus-on my side-I honestly thought I was going to die. Once we got to our hotel we had a little trouble. The front desk lost our passports and we were stressing out. We finally located them and then we had to try and figure out the money exchange. we figured out that 7 RMB (china money) is equal to a US dollar. It took us forever to figure that out. When we got all settled in our room, we decided to venture :/ just a little scary. I was scared for my life, I honestly thought someone was going to hit me with their car...or their bike. Either way it wouldn't be good. Anyways, we walked around and found a mall. We found the food court and that was interesting ordering. considering we had no idea what we were ordering. ha ha we tried a fancy restaurant first but decided to take it easy the first time. I am happy to say that Pepsi is the same in China as it is in the US- just plain good! :) That made me really happy! I am also glad that my dad taught me how to use chopsticks cause that's pretty much all they use here. I would be getting more attention that we already are if I had to eat my food by spearing it with my chopsticks :) ha ha. We get a lot of wierd looks walking around and my mom even made a friend here at the hotel :) I am not sure what his name is but his excuse for talking to her was "he needed to practice his English" but I think it was her red hair :) apparently he knows four different languages though and he taught them to himself. He was pretty proud of that but he is a funny guy. A funny thing about being here is that they are all small people. This "friend" of my mom's is shorter than me. I am a short person, so that is telling you something. I guess that could be why we attract attention too...Anyways, tomorrow we head out early to visit the silk factory, something else, and the great wall of china :) I am pretty dang excited! I just wish we were picking up my sister tomorrow :( I don't know if i can wait three more days...but I guess I have waited my whole life so far so I should live and be able to endure a couple days :)