51 pictures!: Photos 21 to 42

It has been 51 days since our last post. 51 days that have been jam-packed and eventful.

We'll give you a rough outline of what we've been up to, but you'll find most of the details in the captions of our pictures, one for every day you all have excitedly waited for this update, a whopping 51 in total!

We began April with another trip to Qing Cheng mountain. This time using the whole weekend, sleeping in a mountain-top guesthouse, and climbing to the Taoist temple atop the tallest peak. We made the trip with some of Cody's classmates, who all happen to be from Korea and really know how to handle their Baijiu (Chinese liquor) ... needless to say, our second mountain-top night was filled with merriment, homemade-Japanese-apricot moonshine and many a sing along. We were scrounging for songs and in our altered state somehow happened upon the 90's hit "2000 Miles" (I would walk 500 miles...) by the Pretenders. To our surprise, everyone LOVED IT! Especially since the call and response portion of the song, "ba da da, ba da da, ba da da, ba da da ...." (Don't pretend you don't know what we're talking about

Full Text Entry: 51 pictures!

Good journeys eh, you do more things than me. Love the photos, lets keep in touch about our own travels, I will send you an email. Peace.

"two aimless waterbugs on the pond of life"--you might know I would love that phrase! Stephanie, did the acupuncture help your back? Those black-and-white-striped rugby uniforms are quite something! The panda photos are great--I can see why you wanted to share them. So glad both of you were able to vacation with Laura and Sarah, but I got breathless just reading about all of that climbing. Is there any easier way to get up the mountain so one can experience the Buddhist temples and guesthouses? Hope all goes well with your visas. Miss you both tons!

Hear about the earthquake. Are you two ok?

Emei Shan - magical. Pandas - adorable. Must have been wonderful having company from home.

Good journeys eh, you do more things than me. Love the photos, lets keep in touch about our own travels, I will send you an email. Peace.

"two aimless waterbugs on the pond of life"--you might know I would love that phrase! Stephanie, did the acupuncture help your back? Those black-and-white-striped rugby uniforms are quite something! The panda photos are great--I can see why you wanted to share them. So glad both of you were able to vacation with Laura and Sarah, but I got breathless just reading about all of that climbing. Is there any easier way to get up the mountain so one can experience the Buddhist temples and guesthouses? Hope all goes well with your visas. Miss you both tons!

Hear about the earthquake. Are you two ok?

Emei Shan - magical. Pandas - adorable. Must have been wonderful having company from home.