Travel Day....I made it!

Well folks, I'm here and for those of you that can remember the O.J. Simpson commercial...(was if for hertz?) I spent my entire day running from plane to plane. My day started at 0600, I arrived at Chris's house at 0700 and the airport at 0800, funny thing is I had four hours to kill before my flyt. They cancelled the flyt 30 minutes prior to departure, which was the beginning of my cancelled flyt day. I ran to the earlier flyt that was just getting ready to depart, and begged them, (by the way, I no longer have a first born, ha!)...to let me on. They did and on to Detroit. I sat to a cool guy, he was an archeologist. I don't think I've ever met one of those. His name was Seth and he said he started out in Forensic anthropology, but the samples were not dead enough for him, so he decided on bones. That's funny.
I sprinted to my next flyt, only to find out I left my coat on the earlier flyt...yippie! Good thing they cancelled this flyt because that gave me time to go back and get my coat. It appears they didn't cancel that next flyt because the plane was gone with my coat. Consistent with my day.
They were gracious enough on the flyt to Tokyo to tell us before we got there that our flyt to Bejing was cancelled, "thanks!". Finally, after bartering off my last born child, I made it on a flyt to Bejing. 2 of the other families were also on the flyt.
We landed and off to the Hotel. It was cool the streets were lit up for New Years eve and people were everywhere. One of the families had a little girl 4 years old they adopted last year from China, she was cute, they were adopting a 2 year old this time. This was their 12th child, 10 of which were brought together by marriage, 6 from him, 4 from her and 2 adopted. Another couple was here for their 2nd time, having been here 3 years ago. A very nice lady, her husband and their 8 year old son, one of 3 were here to adopt a 3 year old and finally an older couple whom were here last year with their daughter who was adopting their 3rd grandchild, decided they were so taken they would adopt...imagine that!
Well, my phone is working (regular number, just dial as normal), as well as email, so drop a line, it will be nice to hear from you. I'm headed for the forbidden city and some shopping. I'll talk later!