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We are home!

Thank you for all your good wishes and prayers for our “get-away” weekend. It was really relaxing and wonderful!
I wonder if you’d like to play a game and see who can guess where we went? I’m going to post the photos from our trip and the first commentor with the correct city and state will [...]

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On 4/5/07:
It is about 3 in the afternoon here and you all are tucked snugly in bed. This morning Kim and Phoebe stayed “home” instead of doing the sightseeing. Phoebe has been a little fussy and had a hard time sleeping the past day. So, Kim decided they both could use a little downtime. (Turns [...]

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On 4/4/07:
Good Evening – it is Wednesday evening (I think – good gravy, I’m so confused…). It should be your Wednesday morning, right?
We’ve been going to bed pretty early and waking by 5:30 or 6 the past few days. All the sightseeing and the excitement of the babies is exhausting! We watch a little CNN [...]

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On 4/3/07:
Good news – renting the computer is much cheaper here in Changsha! We are trying to get some photos uploaded today, we’ll see how that goes. Check the blog late on Tuesday and maybe they will be there.
After we talked (Mon night/Tues morning) we came back to the hotel and had pizza. [...]

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On 4/1/07:
Farmor asked about wildlife on the streets in Beijing –HAHAHA! No there is not much, because they EAT it ALL! I’m not being politically incorrect – Beijingers say it, too.**side note added later: By the way, the Chinese pronounce Beijing with a hard ā€œjā€ – Bei-Jing not Bei-jhing, like we do. So, if you [...]

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China Experience – Beijing

The second in the series of my China travel journal:
On 3/31/07:Good Morning – it must be around 7:30 Saturday morning for you all as it is 7:30 pm here. It was wonderful to talk to you all this morning/last night! I loved hearing all your voices!
I’m so pleased to hear that school is going well [...]

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China Experience

On March 29th, my dear friend and I left for a two-week trip to China to bring home her newly adopted daughter, Phoebe Lin. We had an absolutely amazing journey through China traveling to: Beijing, Changsha, and Guangzhou. While there, we emailed home almost daily (in addition to phone calls home on an international cell [...]

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