Jinyuelijia Hotel Wenzhou

... scary and I'm just so relieved that she is better. Oh, and in case you were wondering, 2 days of IV (including the antibiotic) plus the doctor’s appointment cost about 13 USD.


Despite Elise’s illness, we very much enjoyed staying in Qingtian for 9 days. That was the longest we stayed in one place for the whole trip. Add to that: our generous relatives who helped with celebrating the holiday, treated us to ...

China has had the one child policy in force since 1980. So people have not seen families with more than one child in almost 30 years. Now that all those only children are old enough to procreate, the latest policy is, that if both husband and wife are only children, they're allowed to have 2 children, to represent each side of the family. There have been so many comments, stares, surprised ...

A family visit would not be complete without a visit to our ancestors' graves. We visited 4 gravesites on the hillside above my great grandfather's house. Here’s a picture of my great grandfather’s tomb. To scare the "evil spirits" away, my mom’s cousin set off fireworks at each gravesite. That was quite a thrill for the kids.

Paul bought a few Roman candles, small firecrackers and little cone shaped ...

... medicine doctor, so he was well respected and made more money than others in the town. You can still see the frame of the old house on each side. They rebuilt the middle (white) section and one of my mom’s cousins lives there now.

This is a picture of the back alleyway of the house. It used to be the main road when my mom was little. This ...

... 3). The whole country was off from Oct 1-8. We planned to stay in Qingtian until the holiday was over, to avoid all the crowds traveling at the same time. There was supposed to be 200 million people traveling over that week. We figured avoiding that would be a good idea!


My grandparents’ hometown, Qingtian, is known for being a mountainous area with carvable rock. Here’s an ...

... on the board. The desks are everywhere and chairs are usually upturned. I walked in today and someone had shaken a pepsi bottle and sprayed it EVERYWHERE. The chalkboard, and every single desk was sticky and grimy.

Tim's sister-in-law, also a teacher, made a comment saying it's nice to know grade 8's are the same worldwide :P

Anyway, here are some pictures of the school, our rooms and nearby.

... that looked like it was from Happy Feet. Two steps later I realized it was missing an arm, so I ran back and took the first thing that wasn`t broken and was relatively clean which happened to be a monkey (w0ot!)

There was a many following us around the park and trying to get his kid to say `hello` to us. The kid was not amused.

So it's been two weeks since we first arrived in China.

Our first night here had to be the worst night of my life. I hadn’t slept at all the night before going. At the airport right as I was having a heartfelt tender goodbye moment with my mom some weirdo came up and said hi to her. Apparently she knew him from church a long time ago, and she said he was incredibly creepy then and he still is. He wound up ...

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