Lucy, Here we come!

We left for China on January 5th, 2005 from Indianapolis at 8:40Am. We flew to Chicago to board our plane to Tokyo, Japan. The flight to Tokyo was a whopping 13 hours. We actually waited on the runway for 2 hours in Chicago before take off which made the entire flight 15 hours! Talk about a long flight! We thought we would get a lot of sleep on the plane but we didn't. From Tokyo we flew to Beijing which was only a 4 hour flight. We arrived in Bejing at 9:15pm on January 6th. That was actually 9:15 AM our time which meant we traveled for a little over 24 hours. We met our coordinator at the airport and her name was Genie. She was great. She took care of all of our arrangements the entire time we were in China. We got to the hotel in Bejing around 11pm and we were ready to sleep!