Fun Times Five

Friday, October 26, 2007

Squatty Potties

OK. I've had several questions about the squatty potties. A squatty potty is basically a Chinese toilet. Most people there do not use a "Western" toilet, as they call our potties. At least not in a public place. Not sure what they have in their homes. We would go to a nice restaurant and even there, most are squatty potties. There would be maybe 20 stalls, with 2 "Western" toilets. The rest are squatties. We never had to wait for a "Western" toilet, as the people who live there usually prefer not to use them.

Thursday, October 25, 2007

More Miscellaneous Photos

Todd went on a guys outing to a live meat market. You choose your live animal, and they slaughter it for you. This was one of the delicacies they could choose from. They had frogs, snakes, lizards, chickens, goats, seafood. They arrived right after the slaughter, and there was blood and guts in the street.

We all rode on rickshaws for a tour on Hutong, the old part of Beijing. These poor guys each pull 2 people, and they can really move! It was fun, and interesting to see how these people live. We visited the home of one older couple. We don't realize how much we are blessed by what we have. Basically, in all the cities we visited, no one has a house. Everyone lives in apartment buildings that reach to the sky. The only houses we saw in China were rural.

Red Couch Photo Day

It is traditional to take photos on the red couch in the White Swan Hotel in our final destination, Guanghzou. Mia is in purple, and wouldn't look at the camera. She was too busy visiting with the other babies in our group. They all came from the same orphanage, so they enjoyed seeing familiar faces during our trip.