Happy New Year

Hi All,

Today was a very full day. We went to the Tian An Men Square and The forbidden city. Both places are huge, and our guide was like the energizer bunny. He pretty much ran the whole way. Then we went to lunch and toured a closina(I don't know how to spell it) factory. then we got back on the bus and went to the great wall. It should be illegal to do all those things on one day. Tomorrow is a travel day so we have to get up at 3 to make it to the airport on time. We have a little boy in our group about 5 or 6 he was mauled by the Chinese girl at the square. he ended up wrapping himself around his dad's leg trying to hide from everybody trying to take his picture.

A lady in our group had to go to the bathroom while we were at the forbidden city and when we went in the bathroom she got this look on her face, like she was scared to death or she was going to throw up and she ran out of the bathroom. I guess she got a nose full of something nasty and had to get out of there, we just looked at each other and though that the squatty was what scared her. It was a fairly clean bathroom even by American standards.

I will not write much but just put some more pictures on here for you. Then I need to go and watch the nightly fireworks show. Bye for now

Well hello everyone. This is the second time that I am trying to get this entry to blogger. We spent the day with a friend living here and shopping. She took us to all of the places with the best prices. We went to the silk market and to the pearl market. Sue taught us how to barter and when all else fails just walking away usually works the best. I had a lady chase me down and try to sell me something I was looking at. If you aren't interest in buying something don't even look at it. We went an authentic Chinese restaurant tonight. We were stared us a bit. Michelle got to be the first to have to use the squatty potty. We are having a good time being here during the new year celebration. There is fireworks for 15 days straight. And when I say fireworks I mean they are shooting them off absolutely everywhere. Take the best fourth of July and x 200 and you might get close. We also witnesses a dragon dance at the mall today which was cool. These are the pictures form that. We tried to video some of it but we are having trouble figuring out how to upload it. See Melba and Dee you could be here having this much fun. Well we have an early day tomorrow and have to go. Mom we will try Skype when we get to Nanning.

Feet on land finally

To all we have made it here... We have a real bad case of jet lag, jet drag and jet gage but we did make it. We will update more later but for now we need to sleep.

Ok to make everybody in my family happy I have started a blog. My first and I am not very good at this so you have all been warned. I will be traveling to China to pick up my daughter in about nine days and everybody want's to be in on the action. I guess this is the new what that that is done.
Kellie