In Beijing

Well we made it. We have had 5 hours of sleep in the last 48, but we are here. It is a little after 7PM here (6 in Chicago) and HBO is playing some old Johnny Depp movie with Chinese subtitles. The flight wasn't that bad, all of the monitors were not working so there was no movie. We made it through customs without a issue and we were debriefed at the hotel for our weekend happenings.

We both are mainly freaking on being in another continent and haven't even gotten around to the fact that we will be parents in a couple of days. Tomorrow is the big tour day; seeing the wall and so forth. We had dinner in the hotel and it was interesting to see how in their cuisine they use every beak, neck and part imaginable.

We went out searching for drinking water earlier (The water is needed for brushing out teeth and day to day consumption.) and decided to sit down and people watch by a bus station. As expected, we were actually the people that came to be watched. It is very interesting to stick out like a sore thumb and not look like the majority. We walked around a little bit and came back to the hotel for dinner.

Our room is nice. It is actually two double beds. The room smells like the day after the world series of Poker. The ghost of chain smokers past hangs in the air and on the sheets and permeates everything in here. We are tired so it doesn't matter. The beds are are rock hard and sit low to the ground. I am just tall enough to hand off the end, not fit in the shower without ducking and overall feel like I am at some cruel McPlayland where everything is just too small.

C is in the shower right now and I am finioshing up so that we can go to bed and hopefully be on a normal sleep schedule by over-extending ourselves today.

More tomorrow if time allows.