It is just past 8 a.m. here on Friday morning in Beijing (3 p.m. in Anchorage onThursday).  Just wanted you to know that we arrived at our hotel about 6 hours ago--approximately 30 hours after leaving our home.  The trip went really well and everyone remained in high spirits.  We're just a bit groggy today but we're off to enjoy seeing some Beijing before we leave on a train for Pingliang, China this evening.  We will arrive aty our final destination sometime tomorrow late afternoon/early evening.  I miss DD so much already.

Please keep my arm in thought.  Yesterday as we waited in the plane to put our ags in the overhead I must have simply twisted wrong when I turned to ask Shaun a question with my hand resting on a handle and this "Thwang" wnet off in my forearm at one of the graft donor incision sites.  It brought a yelp of pain from my lips and tears to my eyes.  The pain has continued ever since  I iced it for most of the flights took pain killer, motrin, etc. but I really need thoughts that nothing serious is wrong.