Beijing Tourist

Today we had a great day! We are having a GREAT time so far! We got up early to have breakfast and then we met our guide at 8 am to start our day. There are 3 other families here in Beijing with GWCA and we finally met them this morning too. They are all so wonderful and we had a great day getting to know them all and learning about all of their kiddos! It turned out to be such a fun group of people.
This morning we toured the Tien An Men Square and the Forbidden City. It was so fun to learn all about the Chinese history and get to know more about Tai's culture. Our guide Grace was great and really taught us some interesting things. After that it was off to a silk factory, which was also very cool to see. We of course started our shopping off there with a bang! We got some neat outfits for Tai, a purse for me, and some gifts. In fact we spent so much we got a free gift! Can you believe it - just like the United States - I am a now a frequent shopper of the silk market! After the shopping excursion it was off to lunch and the Great Wall. What an amazing site. We hiked quite a ways, and yes it was very steep. But so worth it! We would have given up sooner but the 6 yo in our group inspired us to keep on hiking! After our long day out sightseeing, the group went out for Thai food. It was really good and we had such a lovely time with everyone.
Our guide was hilarious today. Everywhere we went the people stared at us, they were so curious. We felt like the paparazzi! Everyone wanted to take pictures with us, Esp Jason he was a hit with the ladies, of course. Our guide Grace told us it was b/c we all had such big noses. No wonder Fenton got so much attention!!!!
Sorry there are no pics today. We took a ton plus some! We love love love our new camera! But we are much too tired right now to mess with downloading. We promise to do it later. But I know that no one really cares too much about our sightseeing pics, all you really care about are Tai pics. But you will have to wait one more day for that! We have an early morning. We are meeting our guide at 5:45 am to catch our flight to Nanchang. We will get Tai at 3 pm. So very excited and a bit overwelmed right now. Oh we so hope that tommorrow goes smooth. We promise to update as soon as we get a chance. For now we are off to bed. Sweet dreams of Tai tonight!
P.S. we can read the little notes and we love them all! We also love all the wonderful emails. You all are the best. It is so fun to hear from all of you. We are so lucky!!