Ni Hao from Hohhot!

Our flight was very fast. No sooner did the flight staff hand out drinks and snacks (which we passed on), we were starting to descend to prepare for landing!

The sad glitch is that we are not getting Nevin until tomorrow morning at 11:30.  Its okay really, as it gives us another night to adjust ourselves to this time difference.  Our hotel here in Hohhot is a Holiday Inn, but it is absolutely lovely! Our room is very modern, super clean and very big.   In Beijing, however, our guide is arranging for all of our families to be moved to a better and bigger floor when we return.  The rooms were just too small.  It "used" to be a five star hotel, but has gone down hill a bit, according to one family with us who had been there 3 years ago.

We are planning to go out and find a drug store to get some bottled water, but we're terrified to cross the street!  Stop signs and lines on the road are purely optional here.  I can't believe there aren't dead pedestrians all over the road. Traffic is erratically. In fact, I'll take the DVP at rush hour any day over the street of Hohhot! Our drive to the hotel was frightening to say the least. And looking into passing cars, children are sitting on the laps of adults in the front seat!  Our van didn't even have seat belts in it.  And smoking is pretty much everywhere.  The only place I haven't seen people smoking was in the airports and I don't recall seeing anyone smoking here in the lobby of the hotel.  I must say, I've never seen a "No Spitting In Elevator" sign until today.

Just after we checked into our room, the attendant rang our "door bell" and brought in Nevin's crib, all made up, a baby tub and a little Chinese traditional potty.  Too cute! We thought briefly Nevin might be arriving after all, but it wasn't the case.

So tonight we are hoping to meet with a family I met online. These are the people from the US who are adopting a little boy, same age and same orphanage as Nevin.  We both get our boys tomorrow.  There are five babies from the orphanage being place with their families tomorrow, all from Baotou.