Up and Down

This is what you do when you're bored- hang out under a 300 year old tree.








You asked for pictures- isn't she lovely- isn't she wonderful!!!











So we met our new guide today and we quickly asked her if we were meeting Vince today- she said, "No, tomorrow. They didn't have enough time to get the paper work together at the orphanage for us to pick him up today".

We are in Tianjin now, in a new hotel room for maybe a week. A very nice room on the 15th floor in a city with many tall buildings. It is a really nice room, maybe too nice for us.









We are finding that the Chinese really seem to like their cars and houses very warm. We walked into our room and it must have been 80- so I quickly opened the windows- outside its about freezing.

We were looking at each other and Teresa said "We are going to have another person in our room tomorrow who we don't even know". That does seem a bit strange. I guess I don't really think about things like that- just go and do it.

The guide- Mary- said she thinks they may have told him yesterday. I wish I could have been there to see that exchange. It is so fun to be doing what He wants us to be doing. I still feel like I am just along for the ride and don't really have too much to do with what is going on- even the fact that I have no idea what the itinerary is must be testimony to that- I normally have to know what everyone is doing and right now I don't even know what I am doing.

I will try to post some pictures on here when w return from bumming around. thanks for watching what's going on- it doesn't seem like much. Kind of boring still, which is -I think_ how my life is normally. Maybe you wouldn't say that.

Thanks for all your prayers. Teresa said that she doesn't think many people ask to be prayed for and I think she is right. That would not have been high on my list of Christmas presents before this year- but from now on if you want to give me a box with a year full of prayer every day I don't think I could ask for a more valuable one. You can use me as your guinea pig next year if you want and see how I react:)

Does this look like someone we know?