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Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, and the Summer Palace

Today was a full day of sight-seeing. We are wore out but will sleep great tonight. I am glad that we have these days to adjust to jet-lag before we get Sophie. We love you. We will blog more tomorrow AM, your PM. Tomorrow we will go to the Great Wall! We are looking forward to that.

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Beijing 12.15.2007

Jet lag, not a friend of mine.

Well, its 1:50 pm for y'all, about 2:50 am for me and its been impossible for me to sleep. Of course, as usual, Marc is sleeping like a baby! He may fall asleep abnormally early and get up abnormally early for a few days at first, but atleast he sleeps. Its not fair. Marc and I know from experience that naps are not a good thing when trying to get over jetlag, but our tour leader suggested we go back to our rooms yesterday and get some rest before dinner. Marc stayed strong but I fell alseep for about an 1.5 hours, and now look where I am, wide awake! I'm hoping that the really long day we have a head of us, with no opportunities for naps, will help me. Surely, I will sleep all through the night tonight (Saturday). We will go to Tiananamen Square, the Forbidden City and the Great Wall. We leave at 8:30 am and return at 7:30 pm. Please pray for us. Its so cold and we'll be walking in it all day long. I'm feeling a little sickness coming on and I don't want to feel like ca ca on Monday. (excuse my language :-).

I only have to get through 2.5 more days before I see Sophie. Our itinerary has changed a little, we won't fly to Nanchang until Monday morning, rather than Sunday night. But we will still see Sophie Monday afternoon. Sunday we will go to church and then see some Chinese acrobats that night.

Well, I think I will try to read or watch a movie, that usually puts me right to sleep. We'll see.

By the way, this picture is me trying to tell the street vendors, "no thank-you". In Chinese, you say "Boo-Yaw". The only way I could remember it is because Marc kept saying, "Boo-Ya!".

Love you all,

Sherry

Tour of Old Beijing

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Beijing 12.14.2007

Here are some pictures of our tour today. It has been good for us to see the culture, beat jet lag and stay busy until Monday--Sophie Day. Just click on my new buddy and look at our pictures.

Morning Person??

Well, I am up and Sherry is not. It is usually the other way around. So what do you do at 5:00am? I read some from Isaiah, walked around the hotel checking everything out, and tried to convince Sherry that we should eat breakfast at 7:00am and then go to Wal-Mart and have some fun. I need a power converter to be able to use my laptop and cameras. I am currently using the computer on the top floor in the Royal Club Area. I am not Royal but they are letting me use it for free. That's cool. It is Freezing outside and we are going to take a bonus tour of old Beijing. The rest of our group will get in later today so we had some time. I wish Monday would get here already, but we will try to enjoy the day.

Beijing, We made it!

We made it. It's 9:30pm Thursday night in Beining China!!!. It has been a very long day of traveling and not eating fish on the plane. Our flight to San Francisco was delayed, causing us to miss our flight to Beijing. We were rebooked with China Air and had a very smooth flight. When we arrived at the Beijing airport we were greeted with a huge starbucks sign...I wasn't expecting that. After calling our group leader, we were welcomed by a man that couldn't speak English, except for saying "soft" as he felt my new sweat shirt from Tanger Mall. He hailed a taxi for us and sent us on our way. Our taxi driver was the best, he did not care who else was on the street, we were going to win...and we did. We have all our luggage and I think our minds. I want to go out on the town and eat at McDonalds just for the fun of it, Sherry would be just fine staying in the room until tomorrow. I think I can get her to go, they may have sweet corn pies at McDonalds instead of hot apple pies. These were AWESOME in Thailand.

Here we come.

We are leaving the house. See you soon.