Day 1 & 2: We made it!!

We finally made it to Beijing!! We woke up at about 2:00 AM Wednesday morning to leave the house at 3:00 AM for our 6:00 AM flight. We flew from Houston to Chicago where we had a 4 hour layover. The flight from Chicago to Beijing was 13 hours. I thought we would NEVER get here!! Katie did really well on the flight, but I did have to resort to using Benadryl after about 8 hours. We arrived in Beijing a little after 4:00 PM here, which was 2:00 AM Houston time (Beijing is 14 hours ahead of Houston time). So we arrived a little more than 23 hours after leaving our house. Man, oh, man, what a long day!!