4:45 a.m. We woke up and said to each other, "Can you believe we are
China?!". Then we rolled over and tried to go back to sleep.
5:34 a.m. Looked at the clock, fell back into bed.
5:50 a.m. "Dang it!". Back into bed.
6:15 a.m. We got out of bed.
This is our kitchen...in China!
We had milk and cereal for breakfast provided by the managers of our apartment complex. Note the Chinese characters on the cereal box.
Walked along busy city streets and across a bridge, into the candy cane forrest and crossed the sea of swirly, twirly gum drops... ( for those of you who haven't seen the movie "Elf", this reference is lost on you)
... and made it to church:
This is the building where we met for church. Met a lot of really friendly people. We were invited for a fabulous lunch pot-luck/buffet at our new friend, Rosie's house. Rosie was a great hostess and provided us with an array of delicious foods. Apparently she has studied culinary arts and the proof is in her cooking. Yum!
This is the view from our living room.
Exhausted and with jet-lag really setting in, we return back to our place and relax a little.
Later we drove to Golden Lake to have dinner with Claire (one of Greg's co-workers) and her family. Claire and her family gave us the grand tour of Golden Lake and served up generous portion of delicious BBQ dinner survival tips for China. These tips were extremely helpful, and just having a connection to people who know how to live in China was priceless.
We were so lucky that we were invited for meals because I had not a clue where to to begin looking for groceries.
We returned home, went to bed and right before we drifted off, we said to each other -- "Can you believe we are in China!?"
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