The Caley's Have Arrived In China!

Well, we really are here. It was a really long trip. We left our house at 6 a.m. Thursday and arrived at 0:30 Saturday. Yes, That's after midnight. Of course we lost a day and gained 12 hours. In other words, the trip was over 24 hours.



Breakfast in the hotel was great, then we made a trip to the grocery store where Kathleen broke out into the Halelujah chorus at the sight of Diet Pepsi.



Next was a trip to the Silk Market--actually an indoor market with all kinds of vendors. We bought too much. Chinese Decor for our home, gifts and silk dresses for the THREE girls and a cool silk outfit for Aaron. The calculator is how you communicate price when there is a language barrier. The vendor types a price, you counter with something 1/4 to 1/3 of that, go back and forth ten times and eventually reach a sale. Yes, you do always reach a sale, because if you try to walk away, suddenly your last offer is enough, "But why you treat me so bad? I offer you best friend price."



Kathleen and I got some Chinese shirts too. Kathleen got her first experience with the "squatty potty." No graphic descriptions here, but those of you close enough to her will eventually have to endure the full living color instant replay, I'm sure.

Tonight we went to see the children who are in training to be the acrobats of China. It was absolutely amazing. Kathleen, however found it necessary to inspect the insides of her eyelids for most of the show. Jet lag? Nah, not us, we're long time international travellers.

It looks like we have no access at all to blogger, so we can't see your comments until we get back, but feel free to post. We can get e-mail, however at our regular e-mail address. It's difficult to reply though, because we have to go to webmail. Maybe we'll get that figured out later. We plan to post again tomorrow and then won't post again until we get Autumn.

We love and miss you all. And, oh, by the way, Two days until we hold Autumn for the first time.