These pictures are totally out of order so we'll go backwards today! We are officially tired of Chinese food as of today. Day 3. Not a good thing. This was the END of the meal. Our table hardly touched a thing. The last few minutes they brought us out the plate of french fries and we went nuts! I think they sensed that we were not going to eat much.
We spent the afternoon at the Great Wall. It was a beautiful sunny day with amazing blue skies. (very rare in Beijing!). But don't let that fool you, it was FREEZING. So cold that Avery didn't make it up a step. She sat in the warm coffee shop with the ones in our group that didn't climb. The wall itself is so hard to describe in pictures....very very steep and the steps are all uneven, making it a killer on the legs. I made it up to the first "watch tower" and took one look down and almost lost my lunch! I was done....Jay on the other hand, made it to the 4th tower....way way high!
The highest tower in this picture is where Jay made it too!
Here comes Jay!! He finally made it down and here is his, "my legs are jelly" look!
This is for our church members.......a sign on the Wall!
This little one, Chloe, is Ally's Asian twin! She has our Ally's personality and Avery has taken to her! Chloe is getting a baby brother tomorrow! We can't wait to see them in GZ and meet Jude!
This morning we went to the Jade factory and Avery was in a silly mood! I think she was just really excited that we weren't making her walk all day! We found out she was born in the Year of the Dragon so she went around and found all the dragons.
This morning started out like a normal Sunday with church! That's right, in Communist China, we went to church! The catch is that to get in the door you have to show a passport. Not even our China guides could enter the building. Jay had the opportunity to share about Facing the Giants and Fireproof in the service! The most amazing thing of it all is that at the same time our service was going on, there were 6 other services going on in the same building for other believers, from Russian to French to Malaysia. The Beijing International Christian Fellowship church reaches out to all these people groups and provides them a place to worship!! It was very emotional to me and honestly I couldn't even sing...I wept. It's amazing and humbling to be on the other side of the world and know that God is here just as He is in GA. That may sound silly, but I was just overwhelmed at the "biggness" of God and at the same time, so sad for the people of China who cannot worship freely. It was an incredible way to begin the day!
3 comments:
wow! I'm the first to comment!
So cool to be following your journey! And the sign on the great wall....that rocks. :) How funny!
I've become mildly obsessed with your blog and check it often for updates! I think that we're all counting down the minutes with you until you have your sweet baby in your arms!
Keep us posted!
Crying by the end of this post! I'm loving your daily updates...keep them coming. :)
Yay Jay! That's awesome!
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