Saturday in Beijing

Today at Tienamen Square.

This is our hotel in Beijing.

Below is the early morning departure from home last Friday.

We made it to Beijing late last night. This hotel is not as baby friendly as the one in Nanchang but has comfy beds and a great breakfast buffet. We have quickly learned that the days of wearing clean clothing and eat a full meal are over for a while - Ha!

Well Lily is like a different child today, no crying everytime she gets a diaper change, is eating a good variety of foods and does smile and giggle at Silly Baba alot. She is seriously cute. We are working on getting her to spend more one on one time with me because she is so attached to Dale. Her fine motor skills are great, her gross motor skills(walking) are going to need some work. She spends alot of her day trying to feed her snacks to Dale or I, OMG it is just adorable.

Today we went to Tienamen Square and the Forbidden Palace and did a Hou Tong tour, it was a long day for the babies. The Hou Tong tour is on bicycle rickshaws, poor guy that had to take Dale and I and Lily, he worked for his tip.

Tomorrow we are going shopping in the morning and doing paperwork in the afternoon. The guide does not want us out and about Beijing tomorrow afternoon because at 5pm they are practicing for their 60th National Day celebration in the street in front of the hotel. So if you are not safely in the hotel you are out of luck till the next morning. Seriously, kindof scary. When we checked in to the hotel last night in the lobby all our bags had to go through a security scan like at airports and we had to walk through a metal dector. You cannot have your windows open tomorrow evening either.

Anyways, I will post a few pictures. Looking forward to return to the clean fresh air of home!