Hi everyone!! Things are great, we are all doing well and feeling great!! Today we went to the Tianamin square and the Forbidden city. Tonight we went to an acrobatic show and afterwards we went to a chinese restaurant that was very, very good. It was a fun but long day. We did have a surprise that everyone here is very attracted to Heather and they love to look at her and some of them even would like to take pictures of her because they hardly see anyone with her hair color. She was a little scared at first but after awhile got used to it and is having a ton of fun. She really loved the acrobatic show and thought the chinese dinner was awesome. Tomorrow we go to the Great Wall and fly onto Guangzhou to get Hannah. Here are a few pictures of our day. It may be a few days before we can update again as we will get into Guangzhou late and we are not sure yet what time we will be picking up Hannah. One of the families we are with also has a blog and she will have some great pictueres of our time on her blog. The computer uploaded some pictures that I was not planning on and included some pictures of the acrobatic team.



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We are safe in China. We are really roughing it! Bejing is a very large city with 13 million people. There are bikes everywhere. The one picture is of a resturant and as you can see they are honest about their service! It was nice to just hang out today as tommorrow we will be busy doing the turist thing. We will try to keep updating as much as possible. God bless you all!

A big hello from Beijing, China. Our flights were some of the smoothest flights we have ever had. Our suitcases even arrived just fine. I always said that I would never fly

Northwest and they were wonderful. We arrived last night at 9:00pm China time. We are exactly 12 hours ahead of Michigan time. It is strange because in Russia I felt uncomfortable being their the first few days and here in China it feels like Home.

Heather was a huge trooper on the flight and did awesome!!! She was very happy as on our last flight she got to watch the movie 8 below on her own personal screen. She loved the whole experience and truly enjoyed her self. We had no melt downs at all and we were so proud of. She only asked one time we there yet one time and that was in the van on the way to the airport.

We were met at the airport by a nice young lady name Silena. She was quite perky and happy and talked non stop about the city and things we are doing. Today is a free day and we are going to leave in a few minutes to walk around Beijing and do some shopping.

We had a wonderful breakfast at the buffet which is included in our room price.

We felt your prayers so much. Last night I had tears in my eyes when I realized we are now in Hannah’s home country. Tomorrow is her birthday if you would stop and remember a small prayer for tomorrow that would be great. (or I should say on Saturday)

We love and miss you guys but so far its been wonderful to be here.

Nikolas here is your special message for the day. Congratulations on making it to the 4^th grade and take special care of Aunty.

Katie, congrats on making it to the 2^nd grade.

Caleb, Hope you had a really fun day fishing with Grandpa!!

Here are a few pictures. Our camera is not hooking up well but from now on we will share with Teresa's pictures and when we can get ours figured out we will share the few new pictures we got this morning.

Not really a whole lot to report but I had a few minutes so I thought I would post something. I can hardly believe that in 3 days we will be on our way. The kids are all packed. Katie and Nikolas will be leaving on Tuesday night. Caleb will be coming back to the airport with us and then riding home with Grandpa Visser as Grandpa has promised to take him fishing for a couple of days. In fact Caleb is so excited about this he came up to me on Saturday night and said that we could leave now. He just kind of did is Caleb smirk and laughed. Crazy kid.

I have to say it makes me feel so much better that they are happy about staying with Relatives. It gives me so much peace to know they are very well taken care of and loved so much back here. I will have a few minutes of Sadness Tuesday night and Wednesday morning and then our big adventure will begin.

more later

Not really a whole lot to report but I had a few minutes so I thought I would post something. I can hardly believe that in 3 days we will be on our way. The kids are all packed. Katie and Nikolas will be leaving on Tuesday night. Caleb will be coming back to the airport with us and then riding home with Grandpa Visser as Grandpa has promised to take him fishing for a couple of days. In fact Caleb is so excited about this he came up to me on Saturday night and said that we could leave now. He just kind of did is Caleb smirk and laughed. Crazy kid.

I have to say it makes me feel so much better that they are happy about staying with Relatives. It gives me so much peace to know they are very well taken care of and loved so much back here. I will have a few minutes of Sadness Tuesday night and Wednesday morning and then our big adventure will begin.

more later