China Pictures

Overheard:
Phone conversation this evening, Riley to Grandpa McClure:

"Mom is going to paint my nails pink but her's are red. And Dad gave her a ring on her finger. When they got married, he gave her a boo-tiful ring...

"Yeah...

"But we were not at the temple. Because I wasn't born yet. Because I was still in my Mommy's tummy...

"But I better go get my nails painted now...

"Yeah...

"Pink...

"Bye Grandpa. I love you.

Now buckle up! It's time for...

Heidi's Top Picks of Dave's China Pictures

(Because, man, I just think it's so cool)

 The Great Wall

The Temple of Heaven, in Beijing

The Forbidden City, Beijing, where the emperors lived.

Outer wall of the Forbidden City. The moat was completely frozen.

The Old Town, in Suzhou, the "Venice" of China

Exhibit in the Humble Administrators Garden. The lilies on the left are embroidery. The one on the right is a wood carving.

That's not pencil. It's embroidery. Crazy!

The Humble Administrators Garden

And this one.

Same. What a gorgeous place.

 Shanghai

The gorgeous sculpture is in Shanghai Museum and is made of Jade.

Looks kind of science-fictiony doesn't it? I wanna go!

 We missed him terribly but I'm glad he got to do this trip! How awesome! I do think if he ends up traveling a lot for work someday, we'll get him a better camera phone. Although these are definitely not too shabby.

After weeks of skyping and missing eachother, he got home late one Saturday night after the kids were asleep, but Riley woke up and I heard her gasp, "Daddy's back!" before she ran to give him a hug and kiss and then calmly back to her own bed. So cute. Joe was equally thrilled when he woke in the morning to find Daddy home. DAve passed out gifts for and everyone was just giddy with being together again. And presents, of course. Silky outfits and sweet sneakers and pearls and "gold dabloons" (Chinese coins but Joe doesn't care).

Ok, I don't want to crash the blog, but what's a few more pictures. Sunday best, take us out!

 In case you think Joe was just walking during this picture, no, that was his chosen pose. Maybe he was going for mannequin, or like a robot or something?

PS: today we were all sporting thrift store finds. GoooOOOO thrift stores!