We have arrived!

After 25 hours of travel, we are in Guiyang, Guizhou, population 6 million!  We had a spectacular flight from Seattle to Beijing ~ sunny and clear the whole way.  I had thought we would be over the ocean most of the time, but instead we flew up the coast of British Columbia, over Ketchican, Juneau, and Anchorage, and were treated to an incredible view of Denali!  Then we flew over the desolate and snowy coast of Eastern Russian, and finally down into Beijing.  The air polution here is pretty severe, so we couldn't actually see much of China.  The air smells faintly smokey, even indoors. It was a fairly smooth trip, as the people on the airlines and in the airports speak English.  We were met at our final destination by our lovely guide, Wendy, and she got us to our hotel at about midnite local time. It is now Monday morning (we are 16 hours ahead of Coeur D'Alene) and we are to meet our precious daughter in one hour!!  Wendy is meeting us in our hotel lobby in 15 minutes and then we walk about 5 minutes to the Civil Affairs Office with lots of documents and a few gifts for the orphange workers. (Plus a backpack full of fun stuff to encourage Yu Ping to like us!!)  We are VERY EXCITED!  More later . . . .