Sorry for the big gap between postings. We have been very busy since arriving in Shanghai. Mostly just talking and catching up with two very special friendships. First, our old friends Sean and Angela who lived in Shanghai with us back in 94-95 and are still here teaching, mentoring, and shining His light to this [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Shanghai Blessing
Posted in Uncategorized on September 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Partial success!
Posted in Uncategorized on September 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Well, our search for fried octopus dead ended tonight. So instead, we decided to munch on silk worms and water beetles! Yum yum! The silk worms tasted like mushy french fries – if you can imagine that. When the water beetles first arrived at our table, one of the guys volunteered himself to be the [...]
Scenes from China…
Posted in Uncategorized on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lydia’s changes
Posted in Uncategorized on September 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The biggest thing I have to write about today is the change in Lydia! She has gone from only facing us and holding on for dear life…..to sitting by herself and playing. She goes to all four of us equally well. She will now sit in a highchair at dinner time (as opposed to us [...]
First Taste of Cake
Posted in Uncategorized on September 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Tonight we celebrated my birthday with a cake that our representatives brought to us. It was a lot of fun to laugh and enjoy some cake with some friends from Colorado. We even let Lydia enjoy her first taste of cake. Boy did she ever like that. She just kept eating and eating and stuffed [...]
Typhoon Hagupit
Posted in Guangzhou on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well Typhoon Hagupit (which is Filipino for whip) brush by Guangzhou the night we arrived. Fortunately our flight arrived before the brunt of the storm. We slept through the night and woke to flooded streets outside our hotel. Our hotel is situated right on the banks of the Pearl river which is a major river [...]
A few more pictures
Posted in Uncategorized on September 23, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Chongqing used to be part of the Sichuan province before it became a municipality about ten years ago. Sichuan province is where the panda bear wild animal preserve is located. There are less than 1000 panda bears left in the wild. The zoo we visited had three panda bears plus one red panda. It was [...]
A few pictures….
Posted in Uncategorized on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tonight, after dinner, we went to McDonald’s for ice cream. We were sitting there feeding Lydia some ice cream when several well meaning elderly Chinese women came up to us and started having a small argument amongst themselves about us. Some of them thought we shouldn’t be feeding her ice cream because it would make [...]
Lydia’s orphanage
Posted in Uncategorized on September 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Wow – I cannot tell you how eye-opening of an experience Lauren and I had travelling to see Lydia’s orphanage. It was fun to see Lauren experience her first real train ride in China and to get away from the 4-star hotel environment Our first train was four hours and it was a [...]
A visit long awaited….
Posted in Uncategorized on September 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Well, I am writing this early in the AM (4 to be exact) because I absolutely could not sleep! After being told for several days that we would not be able to travel to Lydia’s orphanage, our guide finally let us do it. So Lauren and I are going to make the trek together in [...]
