Well, this past weekend we were supposed to go to Forbidden City but that did not happen so no pictures or stories about that. We plan on going next weekend though so hopefully that will work out.

So last Friday as Ally and I walked home from school we saw a girl wearing a shirt with English writing on it. That is pretty common here except there is always sometime misspelled or a little off. This time the shirt said, "That's is a Virgin". Now a few things wrong with this 1) why would a shirt making such a bold statement about virginity 2) Is she saying that she is a virgin or is it whoever reads it like "There, that is a virgin" or like "I am a virgin" we aren't sure. 3) That's is. Does not make sense. Maybe this could be our new club shirt... what do ya'll think?

About 10 minutes down the street we saw our first obese Chinese girl. At least we think she was a girl. Good thing I had my sunglasses on because my mouth literally dropped. It's not that she was more obese than people in the states it was just that she was obese and lives here. Everyone is a stick here and the only people you see that are even a little chubby are a few of the old people and even they still have skinny legs. If someone is chubby they are hardly ever a woman. So that was a shock to us. It actually shocked us into silence.

Ok best story yet. Yesterday Ally and I went to church with Tim and Becky McDonald. We went to the early service and since it is smaller they had everyone that was a guest stand up and introduce themselves and tell what they were doing in Beijing. So we stood up and said where we were from and all that jazz. After church Ally and I were chatting while Tim and Becky talked to some of their friends and then these two American boys came over to us and introduced themselves to us. They were from Texas and since we were too they wanted to meet us. Well they are a year older than us and they are helping build the new US Embassy here. They have been here for the past year so we just talked about what they have done here and how they are ready to go home. Well it was funny because just on the way to church Ally and I had discussed how we get annoyed with those people who are obsessed with Texas and have too much Texas pride. That was these two boys. The first thing they said was how much they love Texas and never want to live anywhere else again. Then they went on to say words like "Ginormous" and to do rock paper scissors over whether or not we should go to Hong Kong or Thailand (we aren't going to either). Real cool guys as you can tell. I believe one of them is a big dork personality trapped in the body/mindset of someone who thinks they are "hot stuff". Well they asked us out but we were with Tim and Becky and so we said no we couldn't. Then they got our number and they were like we really want to take ya'll around and show you some neat places. Even though we don't like them and one of them is borderline annoying... we will still say yes. We just want to say we want a date in China and get a free meal and some site seeing tours out of it. More to come later.