Emma feeding Baby J at breakfast.

Trip to Shao Lin....

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September 18th 2010
Greetings All! Yesterday we traveled a couple hours by bus with our adoptive travel group to visit the Shaolin Temple. It was definitely more commercialized than we expected but still a fascinating place. Sweet baby Julia continues to be an amazingly well regulated and content baby. She cries only briefly when she is hungry or upset about being left for a moment but quickly returns to her e ... read more

Asia » China » Henan » Zhengzhou

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more