We made it to our hotel about 2:00 this morning.  We got up to our room and could not figure out how to turn the lights on!  Chad had to go down to the front desk to ask how to turn them on.  You have to insert your room card into a little slot in the wall, then you can turn the lights on.  We crashed shortly after that. 

There is only one outlet in our room that works with our plugs.  As I was getting ready this morning, I went to plug my hair dryer in - there were sparks, a huge POW and then no lights!  I blew a fuse.  Maintenance came up here, flipped the switch and fixed everything.  I would not have wanted to tour China with hair that had not been properly poofed!

We enjoyed a great day of sight-seeing in Beijing.  We took a rikshaw ride through some of the older courtyard houses.  We met a man who told us some of his story and history while our tour guide interpreted. We went to a silk factory/store and were taught how they make silk. Also toured Tienemen Square and the Forbidden City .  It was neat hearing all of the history, and seeing buildings that are hundreds of years old that were built without any machines or power tools whatsoever!  Our tour guide, who is also our adoption agency representative, set up a lunch for our group at a restaurant and it was delicious! 

Hannah and Matthew were "celebreties" today while we were out... We were standing still, listening to our tour guide explain something. All of the sudden these two Chinese teenagers came up and grabbed Hannah, one of them took her sunglasses, placed them on her head and posed for someone to take a picture with her! She was astounded by that! A little while later we were taking a little snack break. Matthew was standing by himself on a little ledge, eating his juice pop and this Chinese lady came up, put her little boy beside him so she could take a picture of them together! Must be the reddish hair....

Tomorrow we head to the Great Wall.

Thank you to everyone who has been and is continuing to pray for us. God is so very good and faithful. We have seen that in our experience, and also as we've talked to the others in our travel group. There are 3 families here now in our group, and I believe another one will join us tomorrow. We all have different stories and experiences, but share one faithful God and a desire to do His will.

I'm heading to bed...lots of steps to climb tomorrow!