The Bostrom Family

Day 12: August 6, 2014             Today was another big travel day…not too exciting but good.  We woke up early and finished packing our bags before our little empress woke up then rushed down to grab some breakfast.  Jeff asked the concierge to call us a cab and while we waiting I ran to the front desk and asked them to write in Chinese “airport-terminal 2”.  Thankfully we had that written down because our cab driver didn’t speak English.  We enjoyed our last taxi ride in Beijing and made it to the airport.  Somehow we make it though check in and security without knowing the language.  It’s amazing how we have learned to communicate without words.  Our plane was the biggest in the world, 8380 China Southern Air.  There are only 5 of them in the world.  It was quite impressive.  After sitting on the tar mat for over an hour Miley fell asleep and totally missed the take off....

Day 11:  August 5, 2014               Today was another exciting day exploring Beijing with our newest daughter.  Today we enjoyed our hotel’s wonderful breakfast and then went off to walk around all the skyscrapers that are in Beijing.  We only ventured a block and a half from the hotel, because we were afraid of not being able to find our way back.  There is some English on signs in this city, but it’s still a confusing place for foreigners.    We went into a “All Day Walgreens” that served food similar style to the way Subway serves food, but not sandwiches of course.  We were looking for lotion for Miley girl, but couldn’t find any there.  Apparently Walgreens are different here.  For lunch we went to the Mexican restaurant that Jeff found a few days ago.  It was funny for some reason to see our China girl eating refried beans.  Not...

Day 10: August 4, 2014             Today we had a real adventure with some real Beijing residence.    Today our group left on a plane for Guangzhou and we stayed back. We have two extra days here in Beijing to spend time with Jeff’s cousin Joel and his lovely wife Alice.    We had an absolutely wonderful time with them today.             The day started off rainy, so Jeff, Miley, and I started the day off sitting under and umbrella near a koi pond at the hotel.   The umbrella was large enough that we didn’t get rained on.   It was so wonderful to just get to sit and enjoy God’s rain.   Peaceful is the best word I can come up with so much so that Miley feel asleep in my arms just listening to the rain hit the water.                A little after lunch, we met Joel...