Sunday, July 24, 2005
First update from China
We survived the long plane trip over the big pond in
good shape, although it's never good when you hear an
anouncement over the intercom "Is there a doctor on
board?" (no kidding). Another woman, actually another
soon to be adopting Mom, passed out in the bathroom
(for those of you with medical background looked like
a bad combination of underlying WPW syndrome, too much
wine on a long plane ride, and a bit of Verapamil
thrown in for good measure). Fortunately she was
actually quite stable when I got there AND I was
quickly relieved of duty by a SECOND doctor on board
who happened to have a much more appropriate specialty
(E.R. doc)! I was all too happy. :)
The hotel where we are staying in Beijing (Kunlun)
also is hosting the very popular Real Madrid soccer
team, and you would have thought that they were
hosting rock stars! The young chinese boys and girls
were out in number. It is an AWESOME hotel, but seems
a little overstaffed (they have a young woman swing by
each evening for a 'turndown' of our beds, thank you
very much)...just not used to the 5 star treatment I
guess.
Anyway, after sleeping for about 12 hours (no
kidding), we headed out for a ricksaw ride around a
historic area of old Beijing, encountered some very
interesting locals (and some even more interesting
smells, poor Lis!) and took a bus trip up to the Great
Wall. A-mazing.
We dined tonight at the Hard Rock Beijing...and
realized that jaywalking in a city of 14 million
people is not to be performed lightly (yikes). We have
hooked up with many other couples, one of which is
from the LaCrosse area. Some of the children we adopt
may have actually been crib-mates, and we may be
forming some lifelong friendships, which is a very
exciting thing.
We can't wait to meet Mia, but alas that's not on the
program for until Tuesday. Will obviously be emailing
a pic then...
Things are really going well so far, talk to you soon,
take care and thanks for your support!
PS : I can read email sent to our beetle4bug account
at yahoo, but I don't think I can respond to blog
comments (filter issue) -- chinagirlmia.bognet.com
