Beijing - round up

Here's a photo of a group of people that spent about half an hour getting photos of themselves with the two boys. I think one of the main thing that has impressed me about China has been how friendly the people are. This has been predominately from having the boys with us. In China you are only allowed one child, if you have more than one you have to pay about $6,000NZ to get the paper work to allow the second child to have an identity. The focus is on having a boy and because we have two of them we're viewed as being very lucky, obviously they don't know the boys too well.

It's good to see some things don't change throughout the world, I told Alison she was not too spend too much time in this shop as we had other places we needed to see that day.

Because all the historical structures are made of wood you would think there would some sort of system in place to mitigate the risk of fire destroying everything. This is what we found in the Confucian temple, not sure whether this was the old system or the up graded system of big pots we saw in the Forbidden City.

Here's Caleb being a tourist and taking photos, I didn't mean to put this photo in but I did it by accident and can't cut it out.

Here's our room, about five minutes after we got there, Al is just about to do the vacuuming, yeah right. The bed was massive, must have been a super king Chinese size, it seemed like the size of a boxing ring, it took a bit to corner Al.

Here's the boys room, two double beds, massive area to play, big TV etc.

Well that's it for China, China rocks and I would recommend it to anyone, on the plane to the mother land now, next stop Newcastle.