Christmas (up) in the Air.

Rats. I had planned to skimp a little on the buying Christmas presents thing, in light of the trip to Thailand. You know--we're going on this really cool trip and we'll get souvenirs there and do such cool stuff you won't even miss getting a whole slew of presents.

But Thailand...well, it's not exactly inspiring a sense of Christmas cheer, is it? It's looking like we're going to have to cancel our trip. Trip insurance (not that we had it) doesn't cover "civil unrest" so we're hoping that Thai Air will allow us to rebook the tickets at a later date. We have a week off the last week in January for Chinese New Year and can hope that things will have calmed down by

then. Or maybe just wait until next Christmas if we can. Hopefully the same will work for the deposit on our hotel. We'll see. Rats.

It's looking more like that the phrase "Christmas China" may be looking more like the shot on the left than the pic on the right.

ha ha ha

Honestly, I was really looking forward to getting out of Beijing and seeing the sights. Often I feel cooped up--just going to work and running the kids to their activities and not seeing as much of the city or other areas as much as the single teachers are doing. We haven't gone on a family vacation with just the 5 of us for a long time.

I guess we'll just be bundling up and heading out and about the (indoor) sights in Beijing after all!