December 10th Update

Dec 10th a.m.

We arrived safely in Beijing an hour ago and are currently relaxing at the hotel.  We left for LA on Wednesday morning.  Alaska Airlines waived our over weight bag fee! Whew... one bag was 70 pounds -- love Pasco Alaska staff!  So we arrived in LA at 5:45.  We spent a lovely evening with the Gallaghers in LosAngeles, though Ann missed Marianne.  We spent the day repacking our suitcases to meet the weight requirements and then had a nice breakfast with Frankie, walked on the beach with Ellen Z. another of Ann's awesome friend/family people and she fixed us dinner and then we were off to the airport at 6:30pm on Thursday night.  Our flight left an hour late but we got into Guangzhou and changed planes on time -- to head back north to Beijing.  We arrived in Beijing at 4:30 pm PST Friday.   Which is noon on Saturday in Beijing.  Quite the day.  Paul is an awesome traveler.. we went to put on the DVD for the last hour into Guangzhou -- he had been in the plane for 13 hours or more and the security check person forgot to turn off the power on the DVD player!! Paul took it in stride and read a book and played with his trains...  Happy to be in Beijing... got update on Joseph.. he is now 30 inches tall, only two inches shorter than Paul.  We are off to walk around and then have Peking Duck in Peking:))  Early to bed tonight and then we are off to the Great wall and the jade market tomorrow.  Love to everyone and thanks for the prayers.  ARP