The Dirt Market

This morning we took a taxi to the Dirt Market here in Beijing. It is this very cool, very huge flea market that is held every Saturday and Sunday. This is a very authentic Chinese place and a little off the tourist path so there were very few other non-Chinese there. It was teeming with people and stalls and stalls of stuff. Everything from beautiful artwork to bags to porcelain stuff to Chairman Mao red books. We had a great time going through all the little rows looking at stuff and, of course, we found at least a few treasures we couldn't live without. Leah had a great time looking at everything because she is my shopper. Lauren did great for most of it but got hot at the end so was quick to inform us that she was hot...several times! Kate was content to stroll through it all in her stroller just taking it all in. We had several people stop to "talk" to us about our "san ge nu er" (our three daughters). I point the Chinese portion out because that is all John and I could understand of the conversation but they were happy to talk with us for a couple of minutes about something regarding them! :)

Here are a few pictures of our adventure today:



Leah and Lauren each got this handmade wrap around skirt thing. I'm not sure what is significant about them but the girls were drawn to the bright colors on the skirts and they really did look cute on them.