um, exec suite, plz?!

We ended up in Bejing after a fairly easy flight from Nanjing -we were a bit worried about how Inara would take it, but she giggled through take-off and landing and even napped a bit! At our new hotel in Bejing, the simple math was obvious, although I felt somehow I was being dupped when the Marriott offered a current, "deal" for an exec suite. So, price 1 with no breakfast or exec suite, free breakfast for less than 2.5 (charged for AK). Anyway, turns out that not only do we get free breakfast and hors d'oeurves, but free drinks...like, real, get-me-happy-at-sea-level drinks. Oh, and free internet in the exec suite to save on that $18/day charge, although regulated a bit by the Great Firewall of China so stil have to workaround for this blog, gmail, netflix, etc.. AK had her own king last night and although I was a bit sceptical that it was worth it, she somehow optimized her body sprawl and took up an unexpected amount of space for her size. Today, we saw the forbidden city. We walked there (about an hour) and after figuring out the stroller we grabbed a taxi on the way back and swam in an opympic length pool for a couple hours and tomorrow we see the Great Wall. Inara has been a trooper. She laughs all the time and is becoming more aware of AK, Julie and I and loves walking and hugging. She elicits many smiles and is very determined and quite resilient. Akasha is still adjusting to the family shift and very good at verbalising the feelings she has, although we are trying hard to spoil her a bit during this transition, she is doing amazingly well. Ok, so back to the exec suite...