The Family O' Blevins

We visited the Pearl Market last weekend. It's a huge indoor market with vendors selling shoes, pearls, wallets, and everything else. Outside the Pearl Market, we found a 220 volt power cord for the Wii!! That's the only important thing to say about the Pearl Market, but since some of you may be concerned with the more petty contrivances of life (just kidding), I suppose I'll describe the more inferior goods that we found at the market. We bought a bunch of pearl jewelry and some Chinese outfits. Katrina did the serious haggling, since Ethan couldn't wipe the apologetic look of compassion off of his face whenever he tried to lower their prices. All the vendors at the market were trying to get us to stop so that they could look at Chloe, allegedly. What a cute baby! How about a wallet? kind of a thing. They did seem to love her, though, and it took us about an hour longer than it would've because we kept stopping so people could squeeze her legs, click at her and chide us for taking her out before nine months, dressing her too lightly, and letting her look at the lights. This is a lady that we bought some cufflinks and a pearl necklace from. She said, "since you speak Chinese, I'll give it to you for [I don't remember how much it was]. Ethan said, "How about you give it to us for [Whatever I said} since] since we have such a cute baby." She laughed, slapped me on the arm and gave us the discount without trying to raise the price.



Katrina got sick on Valentine's Day, but she still looks gorgeous. Ethan went to Wal-mart and brought back these flowers. We chilled with Chloe in the apt all day.




Waste Management of Beijing. In the picture with the trash bags, there is in fact a guy riding the bike in front of the bags, he's just a bit smothered. There really isn't room for large trucks such as garbage trucks and semis, and they haven't established the infrastructure, in many cases, to facilitate their use. As a result, bikes are often the way that a lot of stuff gets transported to and from businesses. That's more true in the rural areas, but not always.



This just seemed like a cool picture because her eyes look so blue!