Wenzhou Xueshan Hotel

... antibiotics in the IV as well. So we went in to the local hospital and Elise got her IV fluids in the "infusion room" along with about 100 other people. It was a lot like getting IV in a bus station. She completed her treatment in 1-1/2 hours and they sent us home. She had 2 days of IV and seemed to be on the mend. She stopped throwing up and seemed to be feeling better. So the doctor gave us the go ahead to leave town. It was ...

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 ...

... car. My mom said that her father used to say that it took more than ½ a day to walk to the city center. Here is a picture of our great grandfather’s house. It included all 3 parts in this picture. My mom said when they were little, they visited and it was one huge (all connected) 2 story house. My ‘Tai-Gung’ (great grandfather) was a ...

... 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.

Situated right next to what has to be the smelliest strip of water of all time is a beautiful little piece of land called Jiangxinyu. It`s a little island that has 500 year old temples ... and an amusement park ...

We saw a Buddhist ceremony and a roller coaster. Tim won me a little prize at the baseball booth. At first I grabbed a little ...

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... just cloth that stops people looking in but nothing else like the sunshine.

After a quick chat to Amigo I raced out into the day and made my way down Xincheng Dadao which took me back to the Big City Bus Station where I got myself a map and then continued down to the round-a-bout with a big statue thingymabob in the middle. What it was is anyone's guess. I ...

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