It works!!

Hurray I have access to my blog!! So today was a crazy crazy long day of travel and I am so glad to be finally settling down in the hotel room and taking a break. Both my flights took off without a hitch, and the 13 hours from Newark to Beijing passed a lot quicker than I thought it would. The most exciting thing was stepping out into the Beijing airport and looking out the window -my first glance of China! After myself and another guy from our tour group who was on my flight made it down the escalator after customs, we saw a sign for University of Utah -the second most exciting thing! And we met up with more people in our tour group.
I made my first purchase with Chinese currency: a waterbottle from Starbucks. Also very exciting. I also ate at my first real Chinese restaurant.
Now I am just chillin in my pjs waiting to go to bed. Figuring out technology and other general things with this hotel is a whole different can of worms that I want to share tomorrow! And hopefully pictures soon.

Bye for now,

-Jen