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cool morning

It's really cool here this morning. I was out with Sukey around 5am and we were both shivering.

On Saturday we're going with the Tompkins to a national park about an hour outside of Xi'an. We may spend the night depending on how we feel and if we can find a place. It should be a good place to hike around, play in a lake, and just be out of the city.

If we do stay the night it will an interesting experience to get Maddie to bed. Before when we've traveled without a pack-n-play I was still nursing and could nurse her to sleep. But this will be the first time she just gets put in a bed, already awake, without any bars or walls around it. It won't be an actual bed, just a pallet we make on the floor. Peter, the Tompkins 2 year old, will have the same new experience.

Peter and Maddie are becoming pretty good friends. They're so cute together and it's always a little fun to imagine them growing up together, going away to school, and then falling in love. I can just hear Maddie telling us, "I met this guy named Peter Tompkins at school. He's so great" and us being like, "Peter Tompkins? Don't you remember him? You guys played together when you were like 2 years old!"

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