2007 winners of the Ms. Em best B&B award...

Friday morning Tina puts Emily into a cab to send her back home, and we feel good that she enjoyed her time here. At least she is telling us that she fully enjoyed it, maybe she'll get back and tell horror stories about how we made her order food and eat things that one normally wouldn't eat, but even if that's the case at least it was an experience that she can tell stories about. Seriously, we were glad that she was our guinea pig visitor, that we passed her tough B&B standards and that she enjoyed seeing our new home and some of the frustrations that we get to deal with. It was a lot of fun showing off Xiamen and what little Chinese we do know.

It will be a little strange to get back to a normal life as we know it, Friday night we just cooked up a quick casserole and called it an early night. Playing tour guide is actually exhausting but enough fun that we are looking forward to having another guest. Remember, the cost to stay at the Wichmann B&B is only a bottle of wine for every two nights and to be a courier who'll bring us triscuits and those other items that we surprisingly miss....

It was fun to watch the attention that Emily got while over here, the photo is Emily with a group that just wanted their picture taken with a westerner. Tina figured that if they get a picture with a westerner then we should have a picture of Emily with a group of Asians. She also noticed that no matter where you go everyone looks at you, that is one of the one things that we know we are really looking forward to when we come home for the holidays. It will be nice to be in a crowd and know that not everyone is looking and talking about you.


And finally, as we promised Lisa, a photo of a Chinese baby...