Saturday morning we took the train from Shanghai to Hangzhou with our friends the Hillmers. Hangzhou is southwest of Shanghai, just an hour and fifteen minute train ride. We had not been to the train station before and were pleasantly surprised. It is quite large and very bright and new. I wish I had taken a picture of the station! The Hillmers are friends that we first met at our church, just a couple of weeks after we arrived in Shanghai. They have boys roughly our boys' ages and a daughter Gwen's age. They are in our small group, and their boys attend Concordia with Caleb and Seth. We went to Hangzhou for an overnight to do a little sightseeing, but mostly to attend a service at the largest church in China, where Luis Palau was speaking this weekend.
Gwen and Andrea (pronounced the Spanish way, On-dray-a) settle in for the ride. Gwen and Andrea are fast friends. They talk about each other often and hate to leave each other! They remind me of Madelyn and her friend Livie... when they were two years old they reached for each other as soon as they saw each other, and always cried when they had to part.
Me with Maribel. We are playing with the play-doh she brought for the girls!
Looking down the aisle.
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You ask me... it is alot more fun catching trains rather then planes... more adventures getting there... you get to see more - although a plane is good... getting there quicker but then you miss half the fun of meeting all those people whereas on the plane you have to basically sit in your seat...
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