Beijing - Day 1

It's 7:30pm here. Flight was not good for Hildy... she cried the whole way. She has been throwing up her bottles quite a bit so not sure what is going on...making the bottles weaker and will talk to the Dr. on Tuesday. She has pooped twice so that is becoming less of a problem. She is very upset... the flight plus one hour van ride to get from the airport to our hotel here was not pleasant for her. The flight home is not looking good. We are just hanging out in the hotel...had dinner,it is very "western" here. Very different form Wuhan. In Wuhan we were the only white people in the whole city. Kathy told us that most of the people that swarmed us at the market yesterday had never seen a white person before. Here, we counted 11 white people in the first ten minutes off the plane. Met a really nice couple with a 1 year old son who teach here. They have lived in Beijing for two years. They teach at the international school. Our hotel is a 15 minute walk to the Forbiddencity. My room overlooks a hutong... interesting. We are meeting Mr. Yang at 8:45 tomorrow morning to go the the Great Wall. Dad is very excited, we all are! Heather and I were glad to leave Wuhan where we got accosted every time we left the hotel and Tom is excited because the beef is safe to eat here so he had a hamburger for dinner. No more donkey for him! Dad is down at the pool so he is happy. Hildy has just fallen asleep so I am going to unpack,get settled in and have a bath. Hopefully the water here smells better. I am sick of smelling like potatoes/dirty feet. So far the pollution here doesn't seem as bad as Wuhan, we'll see tomorrow. I am feeling very tired, will chat again tomorrow when I have more energy. That flight really did us all in. Less than a week until we are all home!