United Airlines - Our home for 14 1/2 hours - Chicago - Beijing

Lily's Crib - @ the White Swan

We made it to Guangzhou

We made it -- Suz and I left Plymouth at 9 AM and we arrived at the
White Swan Hotel in Guangzhou China exactly 24 hours later.

The United flight left Chicago 1 hour late and we thought we would
miss our connection in Beijing for sure - but actually the customs -
getting our bags - rechecking our bags - going through Chinese
security and walking to our gate only took 25 minutes. How many
times do we have to wait longer than that to get our bags in South
Bend? The trip really could not have gone smoother - even the White
Swan hotel had drivers waiting just outside the baggage claim. How
do you say White Swan Hotel in Chinese? Well we just have to type it
into our handy translation unit and it speaks the question in
Mandarin (thanks Jess - the 2007 Christmas Gift is in use). Type in
XU HUI - Lily's Chinese name and out comes --"she-way".

Weather yesterday in Beijing was 32 degrees and foggy - it was 62
degrees in Guangzhou last night at midnight.

Today is an easy day and tomorrow we get Lily. I will try and attach
pictures but as expected we cannot upload our blogspot here.
Hopefully everything will post.