Hey! He just got back from China. Never thought I'd say that! I am reminded of a Seinfeld bit where he is talking about chopsticks. He says "They know about the fork ... the Chinese farmer in the field, he's not standing there working the soil with a poker, but with a pitch fork... like a dining fork ... they KNOW about the fork." It loses something when it's written in a lame blog. Ho hum, it's funny, really!
We went to Beijing and the nearby portion of the Great Wall from 3-8 May with our 15 month old twins and their paternal grandparents. Here are some pix, the weather could not have been better - it was, however, China's "Labor Week" - like we have Labor Day, they get a week off - which means EVERYONE was out seeing the tourist sites with us. 1.5 billion Chinese competing with us at The Wall, Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City and the Temple of Heaven - not to mention the many shops of knock off Polo, Coach, Kate Spade, Gap, Abercrombie, Spyder, North Face, Nike ... I could go on forever.
Finally, here is that accurately named "Great Wall" --- we walked up it for almost an hour and a half, which I think covered 3.5 miles uphill, on stairs, with our 25 pound precious bundles on our backs, so they did it, too, and so did Grandma and Grandpa!!!