We Made It to Beijing!

We made it to Beijing and are now in our hotel room for the evening. It's 8:00 p.m. here. The flight was smooth. It took us about 14 hours to fly directly from Chicago to Beijing, and our tour guide and driver met us at the airport and drove us to the hotel. We're staying at the Holiday Inn Temple of Heaven in Beijing in an Executive Suite, which is on the 16th floor (the top floor of the hotel), and has a bedroom, a sitting room, and two bathrooms. It comes with lots of perks, too, like free soft drinks -- including Coke Light, which is what they call Diet Coke here in China, free snacks, free laundry service, etc. It's quite nice. I'm really tired and the bed looks very comfortable. I'll post more tomorrow.