July 8, 2009Today could you believe we had KFC for breakfast? Yes, KFC! KFC in China unlike the U.S. has breakfast, who would have thought! Our guide, Grace brought us egg, sausage, and cheese biscuits with hash browns. For being fast food and KFC it wasn't half bad! Haha. After breakfast we watched some of Kung Fu Panda and then I came back to the room to try out Skype to let family and friends know I made it in safely. Skype is amazing! It is almost like your t...

July 7,2009We made it safely to Beijing! We left DBU at 4:30am Monday morning, flew out of DFW at 7:45am, and arrived in Seattle at 9:34am. We left Seattle at 2:00pm and arrived in Beijing around 4:30pm on Tuesday afternoon China time (3:30am Texas time). The flight turned out only to be 11 hours opposed to the 19 hours we thought it was going to be and it wasn't bad at all! I slept pretty much the whole Seattle flight (3 ½ hours) and 6 hours on the Be...