Holy Cow!!

Milk Cocoa

This is the best cup of Hot Chocolate I have had in a long time. Yep, SPR in the Beijing airport makes a mean cup of milk cocoa. Just add a few packs of sugar and you are set. If you ask me what SPR stands for I couldn’t tell ya, but I can tell you, you know a cup of hot chocolate is going to be good when you pour the sugar in and it doesn’t sink until you stir it. MMMMMMMMMM!!!!

Beijing 2008

I got to see the birds nest, and the water cube. I didn’t get to go inside, I was trying to get into the watercube, but I looked forever where to buy the tickets unfortunately I don’t speak Chinese, and I think that is the criteria for finding tickets inside.
I was so excited, yay it was amazing.

The Great Wall

The Great Wall was amazing. The area was absolutely beautiful, the mountains were full of fall colors. The Wall really is an amazing thing to see.

Where is the Forbidden City?

Does this sign help anyone else, it's the only one around?

Bumbles Smile...

So I found a dragon, that I think I have a bigger mouth and smile than. Is that sad?

This is for you Bess

I found a cat in the Emperial Garden. So I took a picture.

Forbidden City

I went to the Forbidden City today and Tian’anmen Square. It was amazing, absolutely huge, you just keep walking all the way through. It is amazing, how old it is but how beautiful and intricate it is.

Every single building has some kind of heavenly symbol. For centuries these people have been searching for Truth in the wrong place. Let's pray that they find the Truth of Jesus.

You Know you are in Asia when...

So, I'm in Shanghai and I definitely know I'm in Asia. I walked out of the airport to get a taxi to my hotel when a man said taxi! This is not completely abnormal in my experience traveling a lot of time guys like that call the drivers, so I said yes handed him my paper of where I needed to go and started following him. We started to walk not towards the line for all the taxi, where the signs said to go, and he started talking about cheap. First warning sign. He also said about 15min, and cheap. I asked him where he was going and he pointed and walked toward the parking lot, and yes that was away from where I knew the ligit taxi's where, second warning sign. I of course stopped walking, and said there are no taxi's over there. "Yes, cheap" He was not wanting me to turn around, I said where and how much. Then he kept saying American money, Chinese money cheap no matter, about 1 hour probably 380 CNY, 3rd sign it went from being 15 min and cheap to an hour. Now I know that the exchange rate is pretty good for me, but I can also tell when someone is trying to cheat me. So I grabbed my paper out of his hand because he was not giving it back to me when I motioned for it, and turned around to go to the actual taxi line. As I was walking he had already gotten a different customer. Now I'm in my hotel after a wonderful taxi ride that was 150 CNY.

Power in the Name...

“Your Name is a strong and Mighty Tower
Your Name is a shelter like no other
Your Name
Let the nations sing it louder
Cause nothing has the power to save but Your Name”

We sang this song in chapel yesterday. It was the second time I have heard it, and let me tell you. There are things that just get me excited, this song is one of them. Why?

“Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
Philippians 2:8-11

There is power in the Name of Jesus. He is a strong and Mighty Tower, and a Shelter like no other. I pray that the nations would sing it louder, starting with our nation.
Most of all the thing that excites me more than anything in all of the universe, nothing has the power to save, but the name of Jesus. He is Almighty, Awesome, Holy, Righteous, Sovereign God, and even in that He is Savior. He died, and rose so that at the Name of Jesus everyone would “sing it louder” as they bow before His throne. We get to sing it!!!!! Why do we not sing it louder, why do we not sing it so loud that all of the earth will hear, and start to sing with us? He is God.