Lots of pictures today... going from last to first... last night we went to the Forest of the Stone Tablets. There were literally rows and rows of ancient tablets.... mostly from Buddha and Conficious time periods and also epitaths and tombs of emperors and kings. There were sandscript tablets also and the stone carving was actually from 800-500BC. We will probably never see something so ancient again in our lives. The restuarant was a very good dumpling restuarant.... chicken, pork, shrimp, tomato, and vegetable dumplings... our favorite meal so far. Joshua's favorite food there was bean sprouts... I think he ate his weight in them. Today we went to a famous Pagoda (it was orginally used a library for Buddha's writings, but now is more of a Buddhist Temple). May I add that it made us very grateful that we worship a living God and very sad for those paying somewhat of a penance to a great man, but no longer living. Yesterday we met a Christian that helped our driver and tour guide find Hope Haven in Xian Yang so that was very cool. He and his wife knew of Hope Haven because they volunteered there and they and their daughter recognized Joshua. Today we also ate at McDonald's..... you know you're desperate when the word you use to describe a Big Mac, fries, Coke, and chocolate sundae is heavenly!!! We have pictures of Joshua eating at McDonald's with people from Hope Haven so sleeping through his first trip with us was okay.... we got him a Happy Meal and he really likes fries and is not very fond of chicken nuggets! The top picture is of Joshua and Quin, his Hope Haven brother, that the family that is traveling with us has adopted. Quin's birthday is the 24th so he and Joshua are very close in age. Tomorrow it is supposed to rain heavily so we are hoping to go to the Bampoo Village Ruins... an inside museum of an ancient city. We are very blessed to have a great tour guide.... she's a history major so we are learning a ton from her. Well... we are halfway done with our trip around the world. Looking forward to seeing you all soon! We love you Grace, Faith, and Isaac.... by the way Joshua is starting to try to say all of your names... he says hello and waves when he says bye-bye! Lots of Love!! Clayton, Angie, and Joshua