Once again, Andrew wakes up at 3 a.m. and I set him up to watch Wiggles on my computer. We're all wide awake now. This just ain't right.

Anyway, as for yesterday, we would not have figured to have a celebrity among us. You wouldn't believe the attention Andrew received. People wanting to pick him up, take their picture with him. Of all things, a couple of teenage boys stopping us, taking a photo, or 2, maybe 3 and saying "he's so beautiful". Funny, more people over here can tell he's a boy than they can in the states.


We had quite a full day that we couldn't have asked for better. It got chilly as the day went, but we started out with a great gourmet buffet breakfast. I had 2 double espressos...yikes. We left around 9 a.m. for Teinnamin Square and Forbidden City. It's huge. I'm adding a photo of us before entering the main gate. This took us until lunch in which we ate at a traditional chinese restaurant. 2 tables, about 10 to a table, about 12 different dishes.

After lunch, we visited a silk factory, purchased a silk comforter and cover. Then went on an hour and half rickshaw ride through a rural area. To our surprise, we visited a typical residence of a retired couple. Sat in a circle and chatted, with a translator, of course.

As if we didn't have enough of a full day...exhausted, btw, we went directly to see the Chinese Acrobatics show....amazing. And as I believe I mentioned, Andrew collapsed on me midway despite all the noise.

Afterwards we came home, grabbed some dinner and came to bed.


Today, we're planning to visit the Great Wall. Tomorrow, we load up and drive out to Tianjian and settle in to another hotel before we go to pick up Emily at the orphanage on Monday. The whole time, I thought we were picking her up today. I don't know where I got that idea.

BTW, I'm still trying to figure out this whole formatting of the blogger. Sorry for the spattering of pics and text. It's obvious that the pics lay out opposite of the way I insert.