The Great Wall, Bye Bye Beijing, Hello Chongqing and ONE Day to D-Day!

Tomorrow is D-Day!!

Danika's crib is empty for one last night.

Chongqing Hotel bathroom

Our room in Chongqing

Arriving at the Chonqing airport

Our room in Beijing

Breakfast area in Beijing

Tea Ceremony - we laughed until we spit tea - Literally!!

Our cute tour bus in Beijing - Dean - it a stick shift!

Dan has climbed The Great Wall

So has Karen!

I can't describe how awesome this sight is in person.

Tuesday we had an awesome day touring the Ming Tombs, shopping at a jade factory, climbing The Great Wall, visiting a Cloisonne Factory (painted enamel), attended a tea ceremony and packed our bags to travel to Chongqing. Wednesday morning we were up and at 'em early to catch our plane from Beijing to Chongqing where we will meet Danika tomorrow morning!!

Chongqing is very different than Beijing - the area is very hilly and VERY crowded. We feel like we are in downtown Manhattan. After we arrived at the hotel, met the other families who will also be getting their babies tomorrow and settled in a bit we went to the grocery store to get a few supplies for our 9 day stay here in Chongqing. Dan is loving the lime, blueberry, tomato ketchup and cucumber potato chips!

We went to supper in a restaurant in a mall connected to our hotel - interesting!! We were the center of attention and even made one of our waitresses cry - we dont know how!

We are over the moon excited to meet Miss Danika tomorrow. Karen has a slight cold and is a bit under the weather so be thinking of her. Our rooms in the hotel are beautiful and spacious, it will be nice to have so much room to walk a baby.