Hey we made it! The flight wasn't bad at all, the girls did great. There was plenty of entertainment on the plane, each seat had a screen with tons of movies & games to pick from. And we surprised the girls with new ipods, loaded with their favorite songs and shows, so that really helped pass the time.
Our 1st night was ok aside from Lucie waking up at 1:00am and talking non stop until she had all of us up. We did the Great Wall today, it was much fun. I am attaching a few pics from our "climb", needless to say Lucie enjoyed it much more than Tessie. Tessie really suffered.. her legs hurts so bad, she was too tired, doesn't like the climb steps, out of breath... it went on and on - I wouldn't have expected anything less from her :-). All it took to make her happy was to send her and Dave back down and buy a stuffed panda. Lucie and I continued on like troopers, I am sure we'll feel it in the morning.
On the way back we drove by Olympic Park and saw both the Birds Nest and the Water Cube. I was really looking forward to that, but when I say we "drove by", I really mean we "drove by". Either way they were both cool to see.
We had a rather interesting dinner this evening. We ventured out on the streets of Beijing alone and picked a restaurant. Of course we picked one with no english speaking employees - yikes. Lucky for us they had picture menus, actually it was more like a catalogue of food, all very authentic, we chose a chicken dish, noodles, rice and potstickers. None of it was what we are used to, I don't think Lucie had 2 bites and Dave not much more. Tessie and I, being the talented eaters we are, managed to scarf down a full meal. Not to worry that Lucie will starve, we walked into a 7-11 and she picked a drum-stick, haha. She probably had that in the back of her mind when she refused to eat anything.
Tomorrow we are off to New Hope. We will take tons of pictures and hopefully find out as much as we can about our girl. Less than 4 days and she'll officially be part of our family!!
Love and miss you all,
Kristie, Dave, Lucie & Tessie
