Friday, March 18th **and the Pearl Market**

Its 9:00 pm and the rest of China group #121 has arrived safely, their all as tired as we were our first night and we can understand why! I’m glad that we arrived two days early to get our bearings and were able to relax because the tours begin tomorrow. But today we were able to visit the Forbidden City and the Pearl Market and Mom, you’ll be proud of me and the beautiful pears we were able to get. I’ll try to post a few pictures of the past two days. Since we can not view the website we’ll have to go on faith that you’ll be able to view the pictures.

We learned today that bargaining is HARD. Its exhausted but expected with just about every purchase. Its fun sometimes and the conversations with the shop keepers can be just as fun as the purchase.

We’re getting closer and closer to Monday and can’t wait to hold Taylor.

Until Tomorrow…