We're in China!

We just made it to our hotel, approximately 27 hours after we left our house yesterday, so we are exhausted! With the time change, it is late Saturday night here. Our 3 flights were all on time, we traveled from St. Louis to Chicago to Beijing to Changsha. Our guide, Amy, was there to meet us at the airport and she has been very sweet and helpful. Our driver, Steve, took us all to the hotel about 30 minutes away and Amy helped us to get checked in and to our room. The hotel is beautiful! It is in downtown Changsha, a city of about 5 million people. It is the capital of the province where Audrey's orphanage is. Haven't seen any other Americans here yet, and not very much English spoken by the hotel staff. We have gotten a lot of stares! Our room is on the 30th floor, and we did a little exploring of the different areas of the hotel, but the staff thought we were lost and kept trying to show us the way back to our room and didn't understand we were just looking around so we gave up on that! Tomorrow we have the day to rest and try to recover from the jet-lag, then our guide picks us up Monday morning at 9am to go meet Audrey!

(snow-covered mountains in Beijing)