Sitting down to recount today and I keep thinking to myself, “Did that happen today?”
It is defiantly the home stretch. Most of the families will be in their own beds in less than 48 hours.
They are ready to be home. And I don’t blame them.
PRAYER REQUEST
Please keep our friend Dana in your prayers. The group that did the family home study didn’t get all the paper work to her (which she just found out today), so she and her aunt have be scrambling here and her husband has been scrambling back in IL to get the necessary paper work.
MORNING DASH
I walked about 35 minutes this morning to the grocery store. There isn’t one close, which is sad. My mission, an anniversary cake. An awesome couple from GA celebrated their 10 wedding anniversary today.
The plan was to get a cake with their names on it, but I got to the store and no one was in the bakery. What was worse, I didn’t have my phrase book. This would have been so much fun to figure out. Who knows what I would have ended up with.
Instead they had little cakes for two (I hope they were for two). They looked just like birthday cakes with the frosting flowers. Not knowing what the plan for dinner was or how many were going to join us I bought 14 of them.
Me (looking like me) in the middle of the Chinese grocery store with a hand basket full of cakes for two.
People were pointing and laughing.
Nothing I could do, but smile and wave.
DAY TRIP
We went to a Buddhist temple today. One of the things that was suppose to happen was any family who wanted their baby blessed at the temple could.
We showed up during the daily service, which didn’t look like it was going to end any time soon. So we moved on.
You think they would have checked something like that ahead of time.
Then it was off to a museum which use to be a house (belonging to the Chen Family). Every inch carved or covered with statues.
Beautiful.
FUNNY MONEY
I was paying for dinner tonight and as we were getting ready to leave the waitress came back to me to say, “It is not real.”
I had passed her a fake 50 yuan. They have been warning us at every tern to look out for fake money.
I have not been on the look out.
I got burned.
So I now am the proud owner of a fake bill (which cost me $6.25).
GO SPEED RACER
Besides the car on the streets there are swarms of motorcycles and bike.
Makes sense. Hard to buy a car when you make $200 a month (and that would be lower middle class).
It is amazing to watch them move. It is like watching a flock of birds dart in and out of each other.
Today as I was crossing a street, I looked up to see a man in a motorized wheelchair out in the traffic with all the bikes and motorcycles. And he wasn’t moving to the sidewalk.
Just driving through traffic.
Pictures from the temple and the Chen house up tomorrow.

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