Category: China

  • Jimmy and Jiao Jiao toast me at the wedding.

    Click this link for Mongolian toast.

  • See the link to Tom’s pictures and videos.

    Tom snagged the best shots.  Click here to see.

  • Pictures have been added for days 1 and 2 of the trip. See the pages by day to the right.

  • My comments on the wedding

    Cary asked me to read through her posts and add what is missing and any other comments. The wedding was a two part process, the events at the home where Jimmy claimed Jiao Jiao and the ceremony at the hotel. The ceremony at the hotel was in three parts. First a blended western/Han wedding, next…

  • Home Sweet Home

    We arrived home about an hour ago–SO glad to be home and looking forward to our own beds. Travel was long but uneventful–25 hours door to door. We got hung up in Newark, but what else is new. Stay tuned for pictures–may be a few days as we have to get caught up around home…

  • Home to USA

    Our flight leaves around 3:00 today for the long flight home. We are all ready to come back! We did a little shopping yesterday as the Silk Street market again–can’t believe how Jiao Jiao bargains everything down for us! I have treasures for everyone! We had GREAT American food yesterday for dinner! Burgers, steaks, etc.…

  • Man Jhou Li

    This is going to be brief and it is late. We get up early to leave Inner Mongolia tomorrow for Beijing. Today we took a 3 hour drive north to the border town of Man Jhou Li. We stopped at this very large lake along the way and got out to look around. They had…

  • Pictures

    I am leaving China today, and I have a few hours so I will post some pictures here so you all can see what my parents have been describing

  • Events on the Grasslands

    Today is going to be another tough one to explain–Amazing! The day started out with the Leary’s and Andrew leaving. So sad to see them all go. Poor Tom was not feeling that great this morning–not the best condition to be in when you have to travel all day! Jiao Jiao’s parents went to the…

  • Hailar

    I keep waking up early so it gives me lots of time to ramble on in these posts. Wish we could add pictures but that will have to wait. Charlie did attempt to send one email last night with 6 photos from the wedding. He made several attempts but he is not sure it went…