Clear Skies

Yesterday it was windy.  Real real windy.  I got confused and thought I was in Wyoming for a couple of minutes.  It is hardly ever windy here, especially in the summer.  With wind like this comes an intense cleaning of the air.  This morning I looked out and felt like I could see color again for the first time since arriving in this country many weeks ago.  I am so used to brown skies with some foreign object that looks a little like the sun, or gloomy rainy skies where the clouds are so low you can't see any better than when the air is super polluted.  In both situations the visibility is usually less than half a mile.  This morning I took the girls out and pointed incredulously to the sky and said, 'girls, the sky is BLUE'.  I mean really really blue.  An incredible blue color that always amazes me when we travel out west.  The trees were so green.  The river water looked even dirtier than before, which is a pretty incredible feat!  I could feel the sun burning my skin.  Such a glorious morning.  This all seems crazy since a person can see this almost daily in America.  But here, it is so rare I felt like it must be similar to being color blind for part of your life and then being able to see again.  It is a wonderful feeling to be so amazed by color on a Friday morning :)

Frozen finally arrived in China.  And by that I mean my husband was able to stream it for the girls and they have been watching it as much as possible ever since.  Now every time this song comes on it is an automatic dance party.  On occasion I like to play it about 8pm at night.  The girls go wild and then their father goes wild, threatening mutiny as a parent.  He is usually way more strict about bedtime than I am, I mean they've been up this long, what is another hour?  haha!  Kyle doesn't look at it this way, so he usually is in charge of bedtime.  If he hears this song anywhere near bedtime he throws up his hands and threatens to hand them back over to me :) 

Happy Friday!!!