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The Wedding
How to begin–so much to tell! Wow is all I can say. The most incredible experience I have ever witnessed. Never again will we attend a wedding like this! The morning started out at 7:30 AM with an entourage of Audis to take us to Jiao Jiao’s home about a half an hour away. Just…
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Today’s events from Hailar
We had a great asian breakfast buffet for our start. Â Because Hailar is a destination for Koreans and other Asians, their food was available at the buffet. Â Don’t ask me what was what, however. Our entourage proceeded in 2 minivans to the edge of town to tour a forest park. Â Since there are grass lands…
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Update from Hailar
Unfortunately, Chinese internet controls precludes us from readily posting pictures. Â Locally, here in Hailar, access to this site has been blocked on a sporadic basis. Â Typing in the site address gets to a search engine age with results for goodrich family in Mandarin. We all arrived in Hailar yesterday and were met by the entire…
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Great Wall
Went to the Great Wall today at a location that was less touristy and further into the mountains. We had to take a cable car up the mountain and then a tram to get to the top of the ridge where the Wall snakes along the top. It was amazing to see how the Great…
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Now the only Goodrich on this Continent.
Well, my parents and little brother left yesterday to go to China. They will be going to the Great Wall tomorrow during the day. I will start my day long trek to get around the world tomorrow. Â I will leave my apartment at 330am park my car and fly from CVG Cincinnati to Newark.…
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A great dinner and more on the wedding.
Last Wednesday, our neighborhood friends took us out to dinner to celebrate JiaoJiao and Jimmy’s upcoming wedding. Â We had a great time at Bernard’s as can be seen in the photo below. (I have no clue how to make it smaller and fit properly. Well, I just did and some how moved the picture to…
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Peter turned 21 yesterday
Well, no pictures. Â We had dinner at Park No. 9. Â Great place with a varied wine list. Â Cary and Peter had beef with ox tail. Â The ox tail was great. Â I had lamb that was excellent as well. Anyway, there goes the last family designated driver.
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More details on Hailar and where we are staying
Copy and paste the links below as the site has details on Hailar and our hotel. Â We are staying at the Friendship Hotel and I believe the wedding is there too. http://english.cri.cn/2245/2005-6-20/[email protected] http://www.virtualtourist.com/hotels/Asia/China/Inner_Mongolia_Autonomous_Region/Hailar-1016890/Hotels_and_Accommodations-Hailar-BR-1.html
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Itinerary for Jimmy’s wedding added
See the link on the right under Blog Roll for an up to date itinerary for Jimmy’s wedding. Â As changes are made to the itinerary, they will be updated by Jimmy on this Google calendar. Google calendar will open at today’s date which, as of now, is not helpful as the wedding is in August.…