Slow Trip to China

We are taking a "very" slow boat to China the last two weeks.  We are battling an "unexplained" illness in our home which is taking us each one at a time.  Last week took a lunch outing to a new Chinese restraunt in our area and it was so much fun.  I explained what we were doing and they played along.  Our hostess spoke to us in Chinese and we were served with nice Chinese dishes (no styrofoam) and she even wrote down a few words for us in Chinese.  While waiting for our food we read A Story About Ping by Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wiese which is a great story about a duck on the Yangtze River in China.  We discussed the book as our food arrived.  We attempted the chopsticks and decided we were way to hungry to mess around with those.  Fun experiment, though.  After our meal, we read about an Missionary in China named Isobel Kuhn from Ten Girls Who Changed the World by Irene Howat.  We colored a copy of the Chinese flag we borrowed from Homeschool Creations ( I love their site).   We are going to start working on the map and the Childrens Just Like Me, hopefuly tomorrow, when the anitbiotics have kicked in and maybe everyone will be on the mend.  Pray for us!!