Wow--what a day! We spent the whole day touring Beijing. We met up with the other family who is adopting with our agency. The Hemingway family is from North Carolina and we are enjoying getting to know them. You will see them in some of our photos. We started at Tienaman Square, then on to the Forbidden City. It was so amazing to see places that we had only read about in books. The Forbidden City was enormous. It just keeps going and going. We toured a silk factory where they told us about silk worms and we got to see them stretch the silk to make silk comforters. We almost bought one, but realized that it wouldn't last long on the bed with our drippy-nosed greyhound sniffing all over it! We toured a Hutong neighborhood, which is an old-style way of living where the homes are connected by narrow alley ways. They took us through on a bicycle rickshaw ride and we were invited into a home and served tea while the gentleman told us about his home. We saw an acrobat show and then had peking duck for dinner. It was an 11 hour day of touring and learning about Chinese history. A great day!! We took 150 pics today. I'll try to post a few more!
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