IN CHINA!!!!!

Whew! Thirty-some hours later, three plane flights, and a wild ride into the city of Hangzhou and we're settled into our hotel rooms.

The kids were great travelers and survived our looooong night on the flight over--they fed us dinner at 1:00am CA time and then put us to sleep. Josiah was a hoot to watch last night: laughing his head off over the "Three Stooges Movie" (a movie which we enjoyed on a continuous loop again and again and again) and enjoying opening his dinner packages (um, yeah this boy is a night owl!). After a 10 hour time of "night" we pretended to be ready for breakfast. After landing in Guangzhou we made our way through customs (many lines to stand in but all went smoothly) an onto our last flight to Hangzhou. Our guide recognized us through the glass wall as we walked toward baggage claim and soon we were on the 40 minute drive into the city to our hotel. Our driver excellently maneuvered the van through traffic and into places that weren't there before as our guide gave us some historical background on Hangzhou and we soon arrived (pulling up on the sidewalk in front) at our hotel. My favorite traffic observation was a man on a bicycle pulling a (around 10ish) girl skating on roller blades through traffic; nice. The outlying city is smog covered but has patches of beauty: gardens or small farms. Our hotel--quite in the middle of CITY-- rooms are clean, lovely and small :) (the bed are even smaller). We just ventured out; exchanged some money and walked down the street to a little store to buy water. Our guide pointed the way to West Lake (watch for traffic she warned) so we're gonna be brave a take a walk down there this afternoon: the goal is to stay up all afternoon so we can get on track with China time. Boy will it be great to sleep FLAT tonight! Tomorrow the plan is to tour Hangzhou and look for SongLian's finding-spot. Our gotcha moment will be Monday at 9:00AM. :)We are praising God for 3 smooth, safe flights and being all settled in IN THE SAME CITY AS SONGLIAN. Those blown kisses don't have nearly so far to fly tonight! :) Thanks for following--we are SO very grateful for your support & prayer. Keep them up!