Wednesday

At Hong Qiao we visited our friend, Fenny. She is our pearl lady in stall number 96 on the third floor. She has become a family friend and always asks to see the boys so we took the boys to see her. Her brother, sister and inlaws work there as well so we all go to see each other. We've given English names to many of her family members so it was fun to see them. Here is a picture of us with them.

We walked from Hong Qiao, across the bridge to the Temple of Heaven where we walked around and enjoyed the day. Everywhere we walked, we could hear people speaking about us. People assume we don't understand what they are saying but we do. We lost count of how many people uttered the words "si ge" which mean "4 of them) referring to the boys. After a while, we sat down so I could feed Zeke and before we knew it, we had a crowd gathered around us. They asked about the boys and what we are doing in Beijing. Some foreigners are bothered by this sort of attention but I figure that I enjoy my kids, so if others do too, that's great!

The funniest part of the outing was when a preteen girl shouted to her parents as we walked by, "kan kan, waiguoren!" "Look, look, foreigners!)