Beijing #2

Yesterday, we took about a 15 minute walk from our hotel to The Temple of Heaven, which is an old alter from the 1400s Ming Dynasty emperors. In modern times, the Chinese have built a beautiful park surrounding it which is a common place for locals to hang out. When we first walked in there many different groups of people doing some activities. We saw people with hacki sacks, sword lessons, dancing, and doing various games. There were also many people who were writing with water and long sponge tipped brushes on the ground.(Angela had told us about them and said they were writing prayers.)

One of the neat things was seeing a very large group of people exercising, like line dancing. Others would walk up and join in, while others stayed for what seemed like hours. Chinese are very into exercise. On the walk there we saw one of the "parks" that just sits on the side of the road for anyone to jump on and do the equipment. They were things we didn't recognize but they did have an elliptical. I even got on one the leg swinging ones, it was quite fun and really stretched my legs and hips good.  These people are in shape! You don't see many overweight Chinese at all.

On the way to the Temple of Heaven we got to see life on a typical Sunday for Chinese in the area. It seemed to be market day where many people brought their vehicle (whether horse drawn cart or automobile or bicycle) to sell their goods out of.

We also saw many repair people that sit on the street helping others. yesterday we even saw a lady with an old style sewing machine fixing clothing right on the side walk. We saw many bicycle repair people, fixing old rickety bikes that no one in America would touch, but for these people it was the only they have transportation. 

Than at 2:30 p.m. Angela drove us to the airport for our flight to Wuhan. (Asher's Provence) We are in Wuhan right now!!  And this morning, in just a few short hours, WE GET TO MEET OUR SON!!!!!  We have waited for this day, for what seemed like forever, and now IT"S FINALLY HERE!!!  We hare going to go to the adoption center at about 10:00 a.m. China time!

People exercising in the square