Tuesday, February 13 9:50 pm.

Hi Everyone! We continue to take in the China sites...today we went to the silk store and chose to skip the pearl market and lunch as we were feeling pretty tired. Our AWESOME guide, Faye, hailed us a cab to take us back to the hotel. for about a 45 minute drive it cost us 7.50 canadian!! That means we could go from Summerside to Charlottetown for that price! Hilarious!!

We've been able to talk to Kim, Amy and Mom over the last day or so, so that's been nice. Kennedy has quite a runny nose. It's been an extremely hectic schedule this week so we're all a bit tired. Marv went out tonight and bought us another suitcase to take our treasures home in. We had planned on doing this as our other luggage was stuffed pretty full coming here and we knew we wouldn't have much room to take stuff home. Kennedy is allowed a suitcase, so that will work out just fine. Tomorrow we head to Tiananamen Square and the Forbidden City, then shopping again. Tomorrow evening Yulin is having the traditional going home party for the girls. It's hard to believe we'll be heading home in just a couple of days. We leave the hotel at 10:30 a.m. on thursday and fly out at 2:40pm. Ofcourse with the time change, we arrive home at 11pm, but really it will be about 24 hours in transit for us. We are praying that we can get home okay as the forecast doesn't look good :(

It will be hard to say goodbye to China, but harder to say goodbye to our travel group...The Stetson's and us are the only ones in the maritimes. Everyone else is Ontario west so it will be difficult to see each other. But with the amazing world of internet, we will be able to keep in touch.

Thank you all so much for your continued support! It's so exciting to read all the messages and know how many people watching our journey. We cannot wait to see you all when we return to Summerside.

Lots of Love from Beijing,
Carolyn, Marv and Kennedy