We are in Beijing!

Wow - after many hours on airplanes today, we are all safely in our Beijing hotel. We have been on the go for over 24 hours so we'll keep this short and we will write more later. Everything about the travel was good -- the ANA flight was on time and not too crowded (because we were in business class). The food was great. The flight was not too bumpy. The flight from Tokyo to Beijing was also fine. Beijing is hot and muggy but we are all so happy to be here we don't care. We were met at the airport by Anli -- the Barker China travel coordinator. She had a bus waiting to take all of us to the hotel. Tomorrow we meet for breakfast at 8 a.m. to begin touring. We don't feel tired now (R noted that we are on our fourth or fifth wind). But I'm sure we'll be tired when the wakup call comes.

Here are a few pics we took in the airport today -- some at Dulles and some in Tokyo. You can see how excited we all are. You have to be excited to take photos in the Dulles airport! More later!

J and R