They know about the fork

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!!!

In the following pic, you can see Jim and Jimmy in the center if you look intently - they headed down in a hurry when Jimmy started to fall asleep on Jim's back. The backpacks are great, but not the best way to catch a nap!
When we got back into our guide's van, it didn't take very long for both the boys to zonk out. Grandma bought them the smallest "I Climbed the Great Wall" tee shirts the venders had, so we draped them in them for the photo op, but didn't get the words "I climbed the Great Wall" in the pic due to limited space in the van... still awesome pic, they were so tuckered out! Needless to say, the adults were rather smoked also!
I will post more of China and the rest of the Grandparents' trip to Korea soon!