Friday, September 12, 2008

Back from the Mountain and Resting

This is the community temple......I think the temples are very neat!
After we left YunDong Yan mountain, we went to Xiao Su's parents house and were honered to be their guests for lunch, the food was amazing! After we ate we took the kids for a ride in their little community, Tommy and I even got a haircut. Aren't the girls cute together!

YunDong Yan Continued

On our way from the mountain we saw one of these tractor truck things that Tommy gets a kick out of. He sees them quite often when he is out of the city.
Looking back up after we mastered the mountain.....okay, so the temple isn't quite mid mountain.

The beautiful view coming down.


Here are some more carved stairs we had to master in order to get down the "short cut" way. This is our driver, Xiao Chen and his wife Xiao Su, they had to carry 2 little ones the whole time.



Here's a view of the stairs......they are carved into the rock.




More YunDong Yan

The hike was all stairs, the Chinese seem to really like stairs....every where you go "hiking" is stairs. These were the stairs that were the "short cut".
Here he is taking a picture of himself at the tippy top.

Fun picture of Maylee and Tommy. Tommy is at the tippy top.


View from the tippy top



At times it was a tight fit.




Our Trip to YunDong Yan in ZhangZhoe

Isn't it pretty!
This is one of the views from the top.

This is a temple that is about mid mountain.


Here's the mountain that we climbed.








Sunday, September 7, 2008

The best fireworks we have EVER seen!



When the fireworks began, it gave Maylee quit the startle and she cried a little. As you can see, she got used to them pretty fast and even fell asleep before they ended. What a sweet picture!

We heard there were some kind of fireworks for a convention that was being held here and it was within walking distance. The fireworks lasted for almost 1 1/2 hours straight and were the most amazing fireworks any of us had EVER seen.