After 19 hours of travel...We're in Beijing! I didn't sleep at all on the flight(s) and the last few hours of the plan ride wore on me but we made it. It's Friday night 10 pm here and we got here a little after three in the afternoon (3 am last night for you folks). We checked in with our sweet guide, Susan, and checked in to the Rennaissance Beijing Hotel, walked up and down the street to check things out, had dinner here at the hotel, shower, and now hopefully I can sleep. Its very different here as I expected, but nice. The weather so far feels the same as at home, but there seems to be a lot of smog/pollution which gives the air and everything else an "aroma" I can't even describe. Tomorrow we're off to see the Great Wall, the forbidden City and Ti*namen square. I'm looking forward to it. I will try to post pictures of that tomorrow, but tonight I'm having trouble uploading pictures to blogger.