Our Church building

Did I ever show you a picture of where we meet for church? Well here it is. This is Ed going in the door.

And this is how we get to church! We take a golf cart. The Jing Shan (where we live!)Management provides a golf cart service where they will drive you where you need to go within Jing Shan.

If you come to China, you can ride a golf cart to church with us! Doesn't it sound like fun? Especially when its raining!

Lori at Walmart!

OK... so you may have had to have been there, but when Lori was here she saw these great clothes for her mop. The guy in the picture is holding it. It was a really great price. But then she realized that she could get an even better deal by buying the mop because it came with 2 clothes. She was so excited that we started to take the mop apart to make sure that it would fit in the suit case and sure enough it did! So she went home with a mop from Walmart or as the Chinese would say Walmar. I'm sure the guy thought that we were crazy because we wanted to take his picture. One thing about shopping at Walmart is that they have sales people all over the store trying to show you the products and trying to tell you what you want to buy. On any one aisle you may have as many as 5 sales people, all wanting to sell you their product. And of course it is all in Chinese! I just smile and shake my head. See what you are missing!

Our trip to Xi'an in October

In October, our friends, Lori and Justin Broadbent came to China to visit us. Ed and I were able to make a quick trip to Xi'an with them. Here are a few pictures.

This is the Muslim Quarters it is a great place to shop! This street was so crowded! It took Lori and I over 20 minutes to walk down the street, and we weren't even shopping!

This is a picture of Lori, Ed, and I. We are on top of the old city wall. The young guy in the picture is a collage student that we met. We had a great time talking to him about America and China.

When we were walking on the old city wall, we looked over the edge and saw what looked like piles of clothes and stuff. But what it really was, was a yard sale. So even here in China they have yard sales! From where we were it looked like they had piles of shoes, and coats, and such.

Here we are at the Terra Cotta Worriers. This is what they looked like when they found them. I cant imagine sifting through the dirt and trying to put all the pieces together.

As you can see in this picture there are tons of people! We were there on a Chinese Holiday, and they said that there had been over 50,000 people the day before! It was CRAZY packed!

It was so cool to see them up close! We paid a few extra bucks so we could go down a little closer and get a better look.

Before we went to Xi'an I didn't realize how big the 'pit' was! It was HUGE! This was such a great trip and never in my life time did I think I would have this opportunity!

These last 2 pictures are at a noodle restaurant that we went to. The guy making the noodles, makes them so thin that they are about the thickness of a strand of hair! AMAZING!

Look at all the fun you could have! Come visit us, it looks like we may be here for a while still!

Update on Noelle

I should probably tell people Noelle is fine. She came home from the hospital 2 days ago and is totally fine. Just minus an appendix =]]

Thanks for all the well wishes!

Andrea

Noelle

So for those of you who didn't hear, Noelle has/had appendicitis. She was taken to the hospital in Hong Kong on Friday night (our Friday morning). I know she had been throwing up and feeling yucky. I would assume that her appendix has been taken out by now, but I'm not sure. Camille was the one who called me, and she was relaying what my mom was saying on the other line. So it was a little garbled. But that's the gist of it.

So if you could all keep her in your prayers that'd be awesome. I'll keep people posted through the blog.

Thanks and lots of love!

Andrea

Camille's Graduation!

Sorry everyone that we haven't been posting for quite a while! We found some pictures of Camille's graduation back in June, and wanted to show them and tell you about it.

Camille graduated from 5th grade on June 10th, 2008 from Shekou International School (SIS).

Here I am, waiting for my name to be called to get my Diploma!

Here I am wearing the hat I made, showing you my Diploma.

My class mates and I are standing in lines waiting for group pictures to be taken.

Next to me on my left, is my friend Jessica from Canada. And to the right, is my friend Ellen from Denmark/China, waiting for more group pictures to be taken.

Yay! Now I'm a 6th grader in Middle School, and get to be at the new Bayside campus.






Camille Busath