Sichuan (South Wing) Chengdu

... Ask yourself this question, how many designer handbags have your purchased after someone told you about them? If you have a lot, then you know communication is working on you. Whether it is through marketing campaigns or advertising, design houses are excellent at selling the designer's latest creations. Posh and sexy magazine advertisements do a fabulous job of appealing to the normal reader's eye. Designers can ...

... so down the trail further and shabam, we hit civilization! A quick chat with the locals (the few that were still left this late in the season) told us that we were in a completely different valley than we had intended (the Bipeng instead of the Shaungqiao) and that to get back to our lovely mountain town of Rilong (our starting point and where ...

... little flavor seeds that I can't stand. It wasn't good. I felt like I was going to die after from heart failure. The ladle and chopsticks had what looked like wax around them, but it was butter. Not doing that again. After dinner we stumbled home and watched a movie (Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist is good, I don't care what you say), and then went to bed. Tomorrow we're going to see the largest sitting Buddha EVER ...

... krompir na nabodalih, krompirjevi ocvrtki na nabodalih, svezi cips, palacinke z jajcnim premazom in cokolado. Skupna vecerja v hostlu "Pri Mami": pecena koruza, mleta govedina schilijem, pecena cvetaca, ocvrti koscki piscanca, svinjina v omaki s papriko, kalcki s tofujem, pecen brokoli s chilijem, tofu s krompirjem in papriko... * EKSOTIKA: skorpijoni na nabodalih, ocvrte sviloprejke (ne, nisma gledala Indiana Jonesa), bube, kobilice (te imajo vsaj ...

... be walking rest of the way. The walk back to his parents house was not as long and difficult as the one to Xiao Li's house, but it was still about 15 minutes of walking on a path to get there. We carried some stuff back, but not ours since we would be staying in a hotel for this trip. After getting back to their house we walked around for a little bit while lunch was being finished up. We wound up in their peach tree orchard ...

... to Xichang. Continue to keep all the affected people in China in your prayers. There is incredible loss of life as you will read about in the article I referenced above. There also are people we know waiting to hear whether their loved ones are o.k. Also pray for the medical teams that they will have clarity of thought, energy to perform even though tired and for Chris that he will have a translator with him. Love, Wendy for the Tuey Family

... it was about 15 out. We had a beer, always good for a cold and hung out for an hour or so. We then picked up some movies and decided to just hang out tonight, since we both felt pretty lousy. My cheeks were sooo red I looked like a porcelain doll! So we hung out for a while, watched a movie. Jes had to go pickup our tickets from the travel desk, as well as some toast and water for me. He ...