Our First Outing in Beijing

Our family has been in Beijing for one week now. It has been a crazy week learning the ropes and most of all where to find everything but we are getting the hang of things. At least we are over the jetlag. On Saturday we took our first trip into downtown Beijing which is about 20 minutes away. We visited the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square. It was really neat to see however the whole time we were surrounded by people taking pictures of us and wanting to touch the kids (especially Zach). Mike kept saying "this is what the animals in the zoo feel like." It was wild! Close to the square is a street market called Wangfujing where we sampled some of China's yummy treats like, scorpion, sea horse, star fish, snake, silk worm, grub, etc., etc. Our kids were so brave, check out our photos and stay tuned...