Finally...well almost

After sitting on the runway for an hour and then a 14 hour flight, I finally made it to China. I met a guy at the airport from NY that helped me by calling my hotel and getting the directions in Chinese. He also took the cab with me to the hotel and told the driver to pick me up at 5:30am for my flight tomorrow to Wuhan. I thought he might have wanted money or something, but I guess he was just being nice. He said, "he knows how it is to be in a strange city where you don't know the language." I just finished exploring the area around my hotel, it is close to the Beijing train station. I ate KFC for dinner (yeah, I know, I could have eaten that in NY), but it was very different from our KFC. Bad News...I left my USB cable for my camera at home. I don't know how I did that, but remembered to bring 15 pairs of sneakers. I guess I was more concerned with my fashions in China. I have taken a couple of pictures already, like of the Chinese toilet (very interesting). My hotel room has a western style toilet, so I haven't had the experience of using the Chinese toilet yet. So far, so good. I am getting a lot of stares and "Ni Haos." I wanted you guys to see my haircut, but I can't show it to you until I get a USB cord. Since I always have to be professionally dressed, I never get the opportunity to do something different, so this time I did. Don't worry it's not a mohawk. Pictures to come soon..