big bird

here's our 'ride' for the next 11 hours. thankfully, kevin had called ahead and reserved our seats, so we were in the bulk-head. nice! well, it still was a looooooong flight, but at least we had a little more leg room and no one reclining back in our laps! we saw 4 movies, ate some mildly-scary-chinese stuff and slept for a total of about 30 minutes. ouch! it was fun walking around and meeting more of the families, but the most fun part of the trip was at 5:30pm china-time; we landed! going thru customs was a breeze and our agecny's "guides" were there to meet us right away. we got on a bus and they explained what our itinerary would be for the next two days then checked us into our hotel. we've now been up for over 24 hours and of course, now that we're here, we're wide awake!