China Trip @ Monday January 21, 2008 08:10 am by WunderKraut
Wow, what a day. After spending the better part of a day in airports or in the air, today was very different.
Today we toured Beijing.
We started at 8:30 AM and we got back to our hotel at 8:00 PM. It was go, go, go all day long.
To start off we saw Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City. If you’ve ever seen the Last Emperor, it was filmed in the Forbidden City.
At Tiananmen Square
In front of the throne, Forbidden City
Then we headed to the jade factory and lunch. After lunch we hit the Great Wall.
Let me tell you, these pictures do not do it justice. It was absolutely amazing and much steeper than I ever thought. It was in the low 20’s to teens and the snow had stopped, but we hiked up as far as we could make it.
We made it to the top tower in the center of this picture
Nice view
Steep steps
And here we are on the wall together.
Isn’t she cute?
I’m tired, so that is all I am going to write today. Tomorrow we fly to Nanchang and Wednesday we get Mei!
One Response to “Busy Day”
I can’t believe you are actually there! YAY! Please tell Jen something for me. As she has, I have been praying for Mei’s birth mother. Sunday morning in church we were praying for you guys, I prayed that from the moment you hold Mei in your arms, that the birth mom will have an immediate feeling that her daughter is in a wonderful place, a wonderful family. Can’t wait to see more posts…this is so neat and so GOD!!! Love you guys!