Beijing Photos

i finally made it through all the photos from our trip to beijing...woooo hoooo! just to reiterate, we had a WONDERFUL time in beijing! the kids did awesome. i can't say that the trip was really that fun for them because we did not do kid stuff, but they were troopers and found ways to make their own fun. we had lots of adventures...some planned, and some not so planned. q is doing super duper well with potty training and has mastered the public potty thing. while in china, he had to learn to use the hole-in-the ground and did great. olivia had a little trouble...ended up wetting her pants and sneaker trying to use the hole-in-the ground. we all learned something about modesty in china...in many of the restrooms, the doors on the stalls did not lock...we all walked in on a lot of people trying to find empty stalls. ooops.

we also encountered lots of interesting people on our trip. when we were at the great wall, we ran into several north americans including a couple from northwest austin. we got lots of compliments on how well the kids were handling the hike on the wall. we also got a lot of attention...people taking pics of us and with us. we had a group of five or six women take turns snapping pictures of themselves with olivia when we were taking a rest at the forbidden city. it was funny, but also a little tiring :-) most of our strange encounters were just plain funny, but we did have two instances that were semi scary.

in the eight months we've been in asia, we have noticed that olivia gets a ton of attention...much of it from men, and a lot of that attention is the wrong kind. this is something we are hyper vigilant about at all times (of course). at the beijing airport, there was an incident in the men's restroom where a male employee walked in on livie, seemingly on purpose. that gave us the heebie jeebies. livie's fast-approaching the age where it's no longer okay for her to go into the restroom with josh, and that incident sealed the deal. we also had another interesting incident at the beijing airport where a young man basically leaned across our table at lunch to strike up a conversation with olivia. it was uncomfortable to say the least.

all in all, the trip was an amazing adventure that we will treasure. we are looking forward to printing and framing many of our pictures from this trip; we will revisit the memories we made on this trip often!

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