Family Visit Day #1

Hayley and Charlie arrived on Friday night so we started our site seeing of China on Saturday. Hayley and Charlie happened to arrive on May 1st which is labor day in China. We were not prepared for ALL the people that would be out and about for the weekend. We left for the Great Wall at 8:30 and didn't get there till 11:30! There were people everywhere. We had a great time at the Great Wall and Kayleigh loved riding the bob sled down the mountain. After we left the Great Wall we headed to the Pearl Market for some shopping and then dinner at TGI Fridays. To finish off the evening we visited the Olympic Village. We had a great first day with our family.

Here we are at the water cube.

Olympics Celebration

Friday night on 8-8-08 we celebrated Josh's Birthday party by going out to dinner and then watching the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games. It was so much fun! We had no idea that the opening ceremonies would last for 4 hours! It was so weird to see that hardly no one was on the streets. It was the quietest I have ever seen China. John and I put the kids to bed at Josh and Danielle's house and then woke them up when was time to leave. What we didn't realize was that everyone would be looking for a taxi at the same time once the ceremonies was over! We ended up walking home which was quite funny since Kayleigh was really loopy and kept telling us that it was dark outside!

Here is the four of us at the restaurant. Check out Zeb's shirt. That is a bunch of drool! John keeps telling me that Zeb is getting teeth! He better not be getting teeth at 3 months!

Here we are celebrating Josh's birthday at a Japanese style restaurant where they cook in front of you.