Sunday Snow Day!

This morning we woke up to quite a bit of snow/slush. Of course, we had to walk through it to get to the photo shop where Zoe's visa photo was to be taken.The slush continued for about 2 blocks until we encountered the sidewalk cleaning crew, pictured above in orange. A little further on we came upon a second and third crew, pictured in green, these guys were the army! Big snowstorm in Beijing and they call in the army, wonder if they got the idea from Toronto??Our guide for this leg of the trip, Cissy, told us that the photo place we were at hires their employees for life. They can never be fired, ever. Not only that, the employees children are also guaranteed jobs at the photo place if they wish!Tomorrow we have the medical appointment required by the embassy, Tuesday is our Great Wall trip. The weather is supposed to improve for the remainder of the week, still cold, but at least dry and not as windy. We'll see if the forecasters here are any better than the ones back home.Sent from my ASUS Pad