Finally Home!

A picture from Guangzhou a few days ago: Big sister Emily feeding her little sister.



Well, we all made it home safely last night. All in all, it was a fairly uneventful trip home. Luckily the flight from Beijing to San Francisco was fairly empty. Julia and especially Emily were real troopers through the whole thing. There wasn't much crying or screaming at all, given the circumstances.

After sleeping off and on until about 2:30pm today, we took Julia to the park nearby for what may have been her first experience in a swing. She really liked that!

So for a few pictures, I thought I would focus on our big day in Beijing on May 8. It was an absolutely gorgeous day. We got to see Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City, the Great Wall and then we drove by the Olympic Village on the way home. It was a long day, but it was great to get to see all of that and keep those memories.

Here we are at Tiananmen Square, just before going into the Forbidden City.


Now our excellent guide Grace is showing us that we need to touch the door into the Forbidden City for good luck. (I was thinking about the millions of hands on the door and skipped out on that one.)


Now we're on the Great Wall:


Emily, Kyle & Julia climbed up higher on the wall, along with some of Sarah's family (Emily's friend). Here we are coming down the extremely steep steps:


Shannon may kill me later, but this is a shot of family and friends greeting us at the Austin airport yesterday evening. Julia was doing real well at the time.


And to wrap up, here is another translation I liked. This one was posted prominently all over the Great Wall. (It appears that talking cellphones pose a real danger at times.)