[gallery link="file" order="DESC" orderby="ID"] Helloo! Nate and Laura here, on our fourth day in Beijing. We’re having a ton of fun seeing the city, eating some great food, and spending quality time with Mitch, Jess, and the kiddos. We now see why Mitch and Jess love it here so much; there is so much to do, Mr. Ren and Xiao Guo are awesome, the school is great, and there are many other people in the same situation as them that have become great friends. So far, we’ve seen the Great Wall on what was the nicest day weather-wise in what sounds like a long time, in which we (meaning Mitch and Jess) navigated up the mountain on our own and took an abbreviated tour as the sun set quickly. We also went the Pearl Market where we wheeled and dealed with vendors to score on some shoes, purses, etc. Laura almost got beat up by a vendor for walking away from what this lady thought was a done deal on a purse-funny now, but not at the time. Nate has also gotten a suit and seven shirts custom-made by John the tailor; the guy makes the perfect shirt! Lastly, today we got to eat lunch with Henry and Addi at their school and read to Addi’s class. It was so cool to be able to experience that with them! That’s all for now, we assume that most people reading this will hear the finer details of the trip from us or the Coopers.

Signing off-

Nate & Laura

(A lot more pictures to follow...the internet was too slow to get them uploaded tonight)