Blogs from Fengxian, Shanghai, China, Asia

Hey friends, Today was another great day. It's late and we wanted to squeeze in just a quick update. Shanghai is such a weird blend of old and new. Today we saw a man walk an enormous wooden cart full of wood scraps (?) through a busy intersection and park it in front of the Porsche dealership. This kind of weirdness is not uncommon in this city. We went Dongtai road where there was lots of antiques to peruse. We also found our way around some crazy food markets where fish were being gutted still alive on the street. As is most of Shanghai, it was overwhelming and Nora got some great photos. The highlight of the trip thus far has got to be the acrobat show we saw. We saw Era - Intersection of Time ... read more

(i want to publish this now because the days are passing quickly, but i hope to re-read it and correct the grammar in the future) I last left you guys on Monday night after Sarah had told me that Tuesday we were going to the Child Baby Maternity Expo. It's now one week later so please forgive my fading memories, but it's been a very busy week. Ha ha ha. much as the reader throughout most of my entry will have no idea where i am going, i did not know either. i'll tell you the plans for the future when i am told them from sarah. throughout this entire week i had no idea where i would be in the next hour. Tuesday... I washed all my clothes monday night and woke up at the ... read more

Jim has had to work 8 days straight after the Chinese Holiday, so we have just done some local things. The last day of his vacation time, we went out with a couple of new friends, Julie and Tina. We went to Guhua Park, which I have written about a couple of times before. Leah wanted to go back and rent a boat. This time, Julie and Tina sat in the front with Leah while Jim and I "relaxed" in the back - actually, we didn relax a lot! It was quite crowded being a holiday, and Leah kept running into things, but it was fun! Then we went to the amusement area and only had time to ride the bumper cars before it closed. Julie and Tina had never done this before and we managed ... read more

We are finallly in China! it was about 14 hours from Chicago to China. We had a long delay in Chicago though. I took a bunch of cloud pictures on the flight. when we started to land (they start doing a gradual descent about half an hour before you land) we went through so many layers of clouds, I counted close to 7 layers! the clouds were very pretty, they looked like lands of snow with snow covered rocks! ... read more

We have returned from China and are actually now in Alaska! I decided to post one last bunch of pics from China before moving on to the Alaska pics! Before leaving China, we took Leah back to the Tea House where Jim had taken me for my birthday. We sat in the main part, at an upper level table where we could look over most of the tea house. It was great, we just relaxed and chatted. Leah walked around and took some pictures, but many turned out dark. We even got to see the bird that says "nie hao."... read more