Friday 0500 - Not much sleep - then a tour and some duck

I am up up way too early - should have taken a sleep aide but was so utterly exhausted I didn't think I needed one - DUMB me. We arrived safely in Beijing yesterday and we greeted by Christie one of our CCAI reps. We didn't get to do a whole bunch but I will say that I had one of the best showers ever after riding in a plane for 14 hours straight. We walked only a few blocks around our hotel but we were both starving and exhausted. We ate dinner with another couple and shared several different items plus a glass of wine and local beer. Today we will tour Beijing - Tianannmen, Forbidden City and Hutong followed by an acrobatic show with dinner. The dinner will be Beijing Roast Duck (don't tell Joshua) which is one of the local signature dishes. Tomorrow we will visit a Jade carving factory (place your orders now), The Great Wall, and the Ming Tomb. Hopefully we can add a couple of pictures - not that anyone wants to see us. There are other families that are in very similar situations as we are - one couple has a 10 mo. old that they left in the states and they are adopting a 7 mo. old - another couple had previously adopted a little girl here (now 2.5 yrs) and they are adopting a 2nd girl now 2.5 - then ther is another couple that brought their son who appears to be close in age to Joshua and they are also adopting a baby girl.