Friday afternoon

It is 4pm and we are loungeing around in our hotel room. Ruth just woke up from a 3 hour nap, sounds pretty good right now. We just posted some pictures, hopefully no one is offended by the toilet but in many places this is what the toilet looks like. We have not tried to use it but we are curious how you actually use it?. Ruth had her physical today and it went well, she is about 24 pounds and healthy other than the repaired lip and clef palate. We went to a Chinese restaurant on Shamain Island for lunch, it was very good (and a whopping $17). We are getting ready to gear up to stroll the streets looking for bargains and take some pictures. We had to go to the bank of china yesterday to exchange money and saw some new stores, converse, tupperware, a honey store, chopstick store etc. We are going to look for Olympic souvenirs and some teas to bring home. Tomorrow we will do the big shopping on the island, most likely at the stores that take credit cards as we have spent far more cash than we thought we might but many places did not take credit cards. We will need to buy a few more outfits for Ruth, the first ones we bought were a little small. We did make it to the Jade market and bought a Jade bangle for Jessie to wear and pass on to Ruth when she is older. We will stay close this weekend, Monday our guide will take all of our paperwork to the consulate and we will go back Tuesday for the ceremony and pack for an early flight Wednesday. Our flight leaves at 8:30 am, so we need to leave the hotel by 5:30. We arrive home at 1:30 pm (after we pick back up the 13 hours we lost on the way here). After customs and such we hope to be home by 5pm. The plane ride will be another first for Ruth, wish us luck.
Talk to you all again soon.

Bob, Jessie, Craig, Ruth and Kara