Settling In

I promised to keep this going, so I apologize for the delay. We have been busily settling in with Laina, and introducing her to all her family, neighbors and friends. She is very willing to be held by strangers and is quite sociable with everyone. I am attaching a few photos tonight. One is of Laina with me, she is in traditional dress and we are at a Buddhist Temple for a blessing of the babies. Another shot is of a beautiful Pagoda roofline in a park that we went to in Beijing. The details in the architecture are so beautiful and intricate. The third shot is a picture of our first hotel room in Beijing, the linens were very soft but the bed was not! Pretty, though, and the amenities were everything you'd expect in a nice hotel in the U.S., we had a blow dryer, 2 bathrobes and slippers, an in-room safe, TV, phone, lots of complimentary toiletries, a mini-bar with snacks and soda as well as liquor, big towels, and regular housekeeping every time we went out. I will put one more photo up tonight, it's of a ribbon-dancer in the park. There were so many activities going on there, lots of musicians and dancers of all sorts. The ribbon dancing is beautiful in the sun and looks like fun. I have been working on photos, downloading them and cropping them, etc. It's a bit of work with almost a thousand pictures! More to come!