Greetings from China....We Really Miss American Food

We have been here for 36 hrs and have been pretty busy. We got to China at 3:40pm yesterday and sat in traffic (worse than New York) to go to our hotel it took almost 2 hrs from the airport to arrive. Immediately after getting to the hotel and before we even unpacked, we all went to a Chinese restaurant for dinner. This morning we woke up early after not getting too much sleep during the night, none of the hotels rooms A/C works. The weather today was cold like NY in December, 43 & misty. Today we had an almost American breakfast than we went to the Summer Palace (a bunch of old buildings from the Ming Dynasty). Then we were off to a pearl factory where alomst all of the wives got some pearls. Colleen got a bracelet and necklace, we got Ashley a set of pearl earrings. The current exchange rate in China is 8 to 1, you get 6 bottles of water for 1 US Dollar. Then we went another Chinese reastaurant after finishing lunch we got back in the bus for another long ride making our way to the Great Wall. We spent a few hours touring the Great Wall, I took a walk up the Wall it was a hike I counted close to 4oo steps before I turned around and climbed back down. Our entire group took a group photo and we got a souveneir book with the photo. After the Great Wall we took another long bus ride to a Silk Factory for a tour and shopping. We bought Ashley a couple Chinese outfits. Everyone else bought them too, as well as a few bed sheets and mattress pads. When we finished shopping it was off to yet another Chinese restaurant (everyone is sick of Chinese already, I could sure use a burger or a steak). Now we are all back at the hotel trying to rest up for our journey to get the babies on Monday in Guizhou.
Here is a list of the couples we are traveling with. Kevin & Melissa from L.A. , Leslie & Bill from D.C. , Gary & Terese & Mia from M.A. , Andrea & Leigh from NY, and Anne "The Doctor" & Toby from V.T.