Day 4 - Part 2 - Recap of a few lows for your entertainment

Lows for Lisa:
o The look of sheer terror on Lisa's face at lunch in a restaurant when Bennett loudly declares "I need to go poop - NOW!" and insists he will only go with Mommy.  Daddy has just returned from the bathroom and informed Lisa that there are only squatty potties.  One of our major concerns of the trip has arrived.  How do you handle a 10 minute poop by a 4 year old now?

o Bennett saying he is all done now and trying to open the stall door in a public restroom, since he is done, regardless that it is now Lisa's turn and she is trying to navigate a squatty potty.

Lows for Bennett:
o Screaming and sheer terror by Bennett at the Summer Palace and at the Bird's Nest when cute twenty something girls he has been smiling at come toward him and nicely ask if they can take a picture with him.
o Bennett, aka Captain Fearless, happily looking at the pandas only to start screaming in sheer terror.  20 minutes later we finally get him to stop screaming only to determine he is afraid the pandas (fairly sloth like and sound asleep) are going to charge across various barriers, including a thick pane of glass, and get him.
o Total meltdown at the Beijing airport right after we pass through security when he realizes his latest conquest and newest best friend, our guide Mi Nan, is not coming to Nanjing with us and is staying in Beijing.  It only took him 30 minutes to stop crying, then another hour to start cheering up. 

Lows for Mark:
o Walking through the metal detector in Charlotte 5 times before we finally determine the wet wipe foil wrapper in his cargo pocket pants is setting off the alarm.  This was after he was thinking the strip search was the next step.  Meanwhile the TSA agent is convinced I have a knee brace and will not accept my denial of knee issues.
o Doing the same stupid thing in Beijing on the way to Nanjing.  I never said I was a quick learner.