We Have Arrived!

We are safe and sound in Nanjing!  Our journey here had a few little “moments” but over all we had a pretty good trip.

 

Our flight on Hainan Airlines was very good.  The girls only started to get restless the last couple of hours or so.  Each seat had a little touch screen with dozens of movies and video games to watch and play.  That kept them so entertained that they didn’t even get out their DS games.  The food was not bad considering it was airline food.  For anyone taking this flight – the option of “sausage and noodles” is in reality ham and cheese tortellini – quite good.

 

Our one glitch was that the tickets indicate that the flight was supposed to arrive in Beijing at 4:35, with our connecting flight to Nanjing at 7:10.  A fairly short time to make the connection but I was confident that we could do it.  Well, in reality the flight was scheduled to arrive at 5:35!  That cut our connection time by an hour!!  I didn’t think that we would make it.  But, even though we actually got lost in the Beijing airport for a short time, we made it to the check-in counter with 2 minutes to spare before they closed.  And then the security guided us through a speedy check line so we made it to our gate as the last people were passing through the boarding process.  Since we were so late getting checked in the lady wasn’t able to give us seats together.  But two very kind gentlemen on the plane were willing to switch seats so that the girls and I could sit together. 

 

Ellie and Maddie were such troopers the entire time.  They slept great once we were finally in our hotel room and actually slept in this morning.  I, unfortunately, was up at 3:00am and not able to go back to sleep for any length of time.  I am sure we will all have naps later this afternoon.

 

We are supposed to meet our guide later this afternoon to go shopping for some baby essentials.  We are scheduled to receive Lilyanne tomorrow morning at 9:30 at the Civil Affairs office.