Bao With Other

It Is 4 a.m. And We Are Wide Awake

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August 4th 2010
We got to the hotel at about 10 p.m. and were in bed around midnight. Yesterday was, of course, super long, but all went pretty well. It started at 3 a.m., when we woke up. We scooped Bao up at about 5 a.m. to head out the door. That is when he first saw his Thomas the train rolling backpack and it was, as they say, love at first sight. We got it for him because 1. We knew of his love of all thing ... read more

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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