We made it!
It’s been a LONG time since I boarded an airplane via a stairwell and tarmac, but that’s what we did yesterday. The Air China flight was nice, however. Got us here right about on time.
We’re staying in the Victory Hotel which seems to be pretty nice for us, we have adjoining rooms [...]

We’re really starting to get a little sad at the prospect of leaving here. Our guide, Sarah has really been amazing and more helpful than we could have ever hoped for. She’s been a dream.
On our last day here we went to the Tea Museum. Tea is a very important product in this portion of [...]

The next morning we got up and went down to breakfast before we started the next part of the journey. In December, China changed the rules for new parents and now require that you do passport paperwork in your child’s orphanage province. Which meant that we needed to travel to Wenzhou. Which is a pretty [...]

Tea Ceremony
On our second (and last) day in Beijing we were taken to a place that sells Tea, but also does “Tea Ceremonies” where they describe and let you taste several different kinds of teas. The whole process was very interesting and the establishment was very beautiful, they took a lot of pride in their [...]

The current status is this: We’re awake on Saturday morning and we’re all nice and rested after what could only be described as harrowing days of travel. Not being negative, just wow. Anyways, more about that later. I’m going to try and start at the beginning and catch up with where things stand today. Robyn [...]

We’re going to see Tiananmen Square today as well as the Forbidden City. And about 7:30 tonight we’re going to be taking our train (overnight) to go and pick up our little bundle of joy. I wanted to post again to thank everyone for the comments and tell you guys that we’re all happy and [...]

We were sooooo tired after the flights that we just came in to the hotel, and went to sleep. Then yesterday we went to a large Jade factory, went to the Wall, went to a Hutong, went to a tea ceremony went to an enamel art factory, went to see the Beijing acrobats and by [...]

In about 8 hours from right now we’ll be taking off for Detroit and then heading to Tokyo and then Beijing. We’re all ready to go and tired from getting packed, the house cleaned and all the other four thousand six hundred and twenty seven things that popped up at the last minute for us [...]