Gotcha Day!!!

Forgot to mention that we are staying on the 29^th floor at the Sheraton we have such an amazing view from up here.  It is also really warm here, it was 72°F when we landed yesterday. Last night when we got back to our room, it looked like the Las Vegas strip.  So many lights and large TV screens on the side of buildings it was unbelievable.  We both slept pretty well last night.

Breakfast buffet here is wonderful!!  Lots of fresh fruit, and just about anything else you can imagine.  Typical western type breakfast foods, but we could have also had a salad or Chinese food if we wanted.  It will have lots of great stuff for Andrew also which is really nice.

This has been a really long morning!  We are meeting our guide at 12:30 for lunch and leaving at 14:30 to head to get Andrew (everything here is in 24-hour time format just like Beijing).  I think this maybe the longest morning of our lives.  Our appointment is at 3:00pm then we have 1 ½ to 2 hours of paperwork. So those back home hoping to see something on the blog in the early morning are going to have to wait a little bit, sorry.

There is a lot to watch out our windows though.  We have seen lots of people playing badminton.  We are watching lots of different groups doing all kinds of different exercises.  We also saw a group that looked like they were ball room dancing.  This is such a different culture and so cool to be able to see so much from our hotel room.

There were only 3 English speaking TV channels last night, but this morning there are about 15. They have free Wi-Fi internet in the lobby so we have been taking the laptop and phone down there. The internet is not real fast and the wireless isn’t very reliable. We will probably pay to use it in our room so we can Skype with Andrew in the near future!

more later....