"When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses." -Joyce Brothers

We finally made it!
After awaking at 1:30 Tuesday morning and finally arriving in Beijing via Dulles in Washington D.C. around 2:00 p.m. Thursday we finally collapsed into bed at 11:30! When we arrived we were greeted by our guide Jesse and one of the other couples with The Barker Foundation. We gathered our 44 pounds of luggage per person and traveled to our hotel. Having limited time in Beijing and with a long list of things we were interested in doing, we caught a cab at 7pm and rode the 40 minutes through bumper to bumper traffic, honking horns and rain to the Silk Market formerly known as Silk Road.

What an adventure as we were pulled into each stand to be shown everything from silk dresses to shoes and even had a lovely visit to the squatty potties all in the hour and a half until they closed. We  caught a cab back to hotel and took a quick walk around the corner in the drizzling rain to Carrefar – (basically a Chinese Walmart) to grab some bottled water.

So here I am sitting on the bathroom floor typing at 4:00 a.m. while Sasha puts stickers in a Fancy Nancy Book. I had a few great hours of sleep with the four of us in two twin beds shoved together (how fun!). Sasha says Brady couldn't come because "we don't have enough room in our bed!" Sasha started rolling around for the past hour and I finally just decided to get up. I had been told that blogging had been shut down prior to the Olympics and still is not available here and it is true. So I hope this will post. Just four more days till we are there Zoe!