Farewell Beijing

Time to pack it up and get outta here!  Sadly and happily we leave Beijing today.  I met a few of the families in my travel group and they all seemed so nice.  We spent yesterday all together conquering the Wall and later having dinner together.  They will stay in BJ one more day and travel to their provinces tomorrow.  I'm happy to be able to go down to Guizhou a day early, to get the room (and myself) prepared for Dylan, but at the same time, i would have loved to stay longer today.  The group will be touring Forbidden City and Tiannmen Square and visiting a silk factory --- where they learn how silk is made from silk worms.  that and it was really nice to finally bond with people who were going through exactly what i was.  But alas alack, not the way it worked out today.

Oh and i found out that everyone in my group is flying from GZ to BJ and then headed home.  for some reason, my knucklehead travel agent -- an alleged expert in int'l adoption travel, told me that would be just too difficult to manage.  that the cost would be too high.  well given that i now have to take a train from GZ to Hong Kong, spend a night at the airport hotel, then fly home via Hong Kong, Japan and the finally the states -- getting me back a whole day later... i would have GLADLY paid the difference to be home again with my babies a whole day earlier.  not to mention skipping the entire braining numbing experience of train, hotel, flight flight flight flight....  oh well not thinking about it!

Our guide will be picking us up at 12n, so that gives us a few hours to say See you later friends! and do a little bit more exploring... well around the hotel at least....

Next Stop, Guiyang, Guizhou Province.