After being awake for almost 24 hours, we have finally arrived here in Urumq*, X*nj*ang. Our first flight was almost 11 hours. We landed in Be*jing and had a four hour layover. Then boarded another plane and flew another four hours. We chased the sun all day, it never went down and crossing the international date line we went from Friday afternoon to Saturday night.  AS you can see from the picture of Izzy that we have a three person bed at our hotel, but after being awake for 24 hours it didn’t really matter to any of us and we all piled on and went to sleep. It is Sunday morning here and our guide took us to the market and a Musl*m M*sque. This city has a lot of Musl*m people living here. Our guide is wonderful and has been giving us some great history lessons on the people that live here and the unrest in this area.  The market was very interesting also. There are a lot of different kinds of fruit and nuts grown in this area and so in the market they were selling all kinds of dried raisins, dates and fruits. There were also lots of almonds and walnuts. I took the picture of all the knives just for you Jonah!! It is very cold here!!! And there is snow on the ground. We are in the northern part of China and this province borders Mongol*a and seven other countries. Our guide told us it is -16 C.  Tomorrow is Ruiby day!! We meet our girl at 10 am, that will be Sunday evening for you all. Well that's all for now. Lots of Love to you all!

Teresa