Just a quick update to let everyone know we arrived in China safe and sound.  We had very short lay-overs (thankfully!) and so have been on the move all day long!

The girls began their first flight out to Chicago together:

We had to have our usual “Chili’s” lunch stop, which has been a tradition on our first layover for the last several trips.

The sun was just streaming into the terminal at O’Hare.

A few clouds didn’t dampen our travel plans!

Above the clouds it was nothing but blue skies!!

When we got to Beijing, it was pretty socked in with smog and fog.  It was like pea soup out there!  (I would have posted some pictures, but our flight was delayed coming into Beijing and our lay-over was already short so we were moving along pretty well to get through immigration, customs, and get to our next flight!)  Earlier in the day MANY flights were cancelled, but thankfully ours was only delayed by about an hour and we actually made it to Hefei not long after our scheduled arrival date.)

It is 1:30 in the morning local (1:30 PM at home) and everyone is trying to bed down for the night.  We were all pretty tired so am hoping that we can get our internal clocks adjusted quickly.

Tomorrow is a free day of enjoying the city, then we get the girls on Monday, complete paperwork on Tuesday, go to Peyton’s orphanage Wednesday and Madison’s on Thursday, and then head to the airport on Friday!  On top of all that, my niece arrives tomorrow evening!  It will be a wild ride this week.  Stay tuned!

Cameron