The story behind this house is amazing. Originally bought and paid for by Diana's entrepreneurial great-grandparents it was taken over by the Communists during China's cultural revolution. Since that time the family has moved to various parts of the world and are slowly trickling back to their home country. The house sat vacant for decades and it took until the late 1980s for the house to be given back to its original owners.
The house was built in the traditional style of time including the fact that the bricks are held together with glutinous rice and brown sugar. The house is still standing and solid and will be for decades to come. It is an amazing house.
Throughout China people use recycled glass on the top of their fences and ledges to keep out intruders
Diana and I woke up early morning on the 5th of November to head out to an American Cafe in the Wudaokou area of Beijing, China. When we arrived the place was already packed with other Americans (as well as others from around the world) to watch the poll results. Diana and I had both cast our ballots weeks ago in our registered state of New York thus our votes were already counted.
It was really nice to be amongst the company of other Americans that were anxiously awaiting the poll results. We cheered, applauded, sang Americana songs and came together as Americans. We even applauded John McCain's speech; which I think was quite good.
