Sunday morning

It's Sunday morning, 340am. We are all awake. It's the middle of the afternoon for our body clocks, so Allie woke up a few minutes ago hungry and had a little snack of raisins. Now she is coloring and drawing pictures with Jill. Only three hours until breakfast. Our body clocks are all dorked up -- by the time we get acclimated to the time here, it will be time to go home! Thanks much to Uncle Vince for going into our house to get a document and faxing it to our hotel -- this is a document that we need to get to Allie's finding place -- without it, our guide wouldn't be able to get there. This is our loving family and modern technology at work. Also, it's good to hear from our friends Tim and Jennifer Hicks from Texas and Patti and Don Harris from Ohio. We traveled with Tim, Jennifer and Patti the last time we were in China in 2004 and miss traveling with them this time. We were a great team. Their daughters are four years old like Aille -- beautiful little Lauren Hicks and Joanna Harris. Tim and I ran around and did most of the shopping while the girls were back at the hotel watching football, I mean taking care of the girls. The last day we were here, Tim and I went to the depths of the Guangzhou marketplace (believe me, this a'int no Somerset Collection)and bought some US silver dollars with dates in the 1700's and 1800's. We were gonna be rich -- right Tim?! -- and sell the coins to pay for our next trip to China! We took them to coin dealers in the US and got some quotes -- one guy was going to give Tim $5000 and a guy in Birmingham was going to give me $700. When it came really sell them, we were told they were fake -- what a surprise, it was too good to be true! Hope all is well back home. Signing off for now... Love, Mark, Jill and Allie