Venturing Out

Since we arrived 2 days before the rest of our travel group, Nate and I are totally on our own -no guide, no interpreture. How fun!
Our first adventure was to find and buy water. Oh boy. Later we would have more adventures, like crossing the street! It is pretty crazy when the city wakes up.
We sucessfully found the water and bought it at a decent price, $ 4.00 a gallon. We find that we are much more thirsty than normally. Might be all the smog.
Smog aside, we had such a fun and memorable day. The Chinese are celebrating a week long holiday. We were told that it is their Labor Day. The streets of Beijing soon filled with people.
They were so happy and friendly. And we noticed something interesting, the babies and young children are carried in their familie's arms. We only saw about 4 strollers all day among the thousands of families. The families really seem to delight in their children. Monday, we will delight and rejoice in receiving our precious little daughter into our family. Only 2 and a half more days!!!