Great Wall, Pandas, and McDonald's

Why do I call the blog by the name Great Wall, Pandas, and McDonald's?  When we went to adopt Kiersten, we were able to bring Michelle and Kayla.  We made a family trip out of our adoption.  It worked out well since we were going to spend three weeks in China.  We asked Michelle what did she want to see when she went to China?  She looks at me and says Great Wall, Pandas, and McDonald's.  Two of them are understandable.  They are icons of China.  But McDonald's?  Before you go thinking that it is some temple in China, it is not.  It is the temple of fast food that we all know.  I will say they did offer one thing that the US stores did not have.  They had Hello Kitty stamps.  The girls liked that.  The did get to see the Great Wall and Pandas.  We lucked out with the Pandas.  They had had an earthquake in a province where the pandas live.  To protect their national symbol, the moved a bunch to the Beijing Zoo.