WE'RE HOME IN JINAN.

SUNBURNED IN SANYA ... BUT FINALLY HOME.

THIS WAS A LITTLE PAINFUL, A PRETTY GOOD SUNBURN...BUT TELL TALE OF THE EXPERIENCE IN THE TROPICS, CLEARLY CAUSED BY HAVING TOO MUCH FUN IN THE SUN AND SURF. WE REALLY ENJOYED BEING IN THE WARM OCEAN WATERS AND SWIMMING DURING THE WINTER.

SEE IF YOU CAN NOTICE ANY TICS ON THE LOTUS FLOWER BELOW. I DID NOT SEE THEM AS I WAS SHOOTING THE FLOWER, ONLY AS I POSTED THE PHOTO. WELL, SOME WILD LIFE IS ALWAYS NICE TO SPICE UP A PHOTO EH?

THESE PAL MARIA FLOWERS WERE REALLY REMINISCENT OF HAWAII, BUT THE FLOWERS BELOW I WONDER WHAT THEY ARE...

Hello Everyone.

We are home in Jinan safely and happily and simply unpacking. We have another week to prepare for English classes to begin.

Right now we are not able to post a lot of photos... as the internet is limited to us... however, we are able to write on our blog. For some reason the server/blog won't take our pictures well and just when we post photos, we are told that the post failed because we are disconnected from the internet. Someone is messing with us. We have limited the number of posts visible at one time on our blog to one to help it load faster. That may help and with smaller photos, that could help. When we get it figured out the new pictures will be back. Yes, we got one to post. Enjoy it while we try another...

We did have a wonderful month of traveling, for four weeks, through the South of China. Each day there was something new and exciting to see and do. Each place had its own wonderment to behold and we really saw some amazing things. Jay took so many pictures of colorful tropical flowers. It was Hawaii in Sanya.

We also loved the fruit and there were so many different kinds of new fruits there besides the coconut and pineapples which were everywhere for snacks. Some fruits we had never seen before, but there was also so many we just love. We would get a whole, pealed, ready to eat, ripe, sweet pineapple on a stick for .15 cents. Of course we enjoyed that almost every day.

Dana & Jay

FAT DADDY'S RESTAURANT

ON THE BEACH AT "FAT DADDY'S RESTAURANT" AND OUR WIRELESS HOST WHO OWNS THE PLACE.

The beach across the street.

Looking towards the beach from Fat Daddy's ...

Jay working on the blog inside of Fat Daddy's.

We spent the day working on the 4 lower blogs. We are going out to enjoy the ocean and will work on it later. Enjoy the 4 lower blogs. We are to spend the next four days here at the beach.

We have our tickets home to Jinan, late at night on Feb 12th.

Dana

A DAY IN LONG SHENG

RECENT PHOTOS:

This was our tour of the other side of Guilin and the mountains on the other side. It was a long and wonderful day, with lots and lots of climbing. I am going to publish this and will come back to add more to the pictures layout later. We have been working here at Fat Daddy's where there is free wireless internet, for 4 hours and now it is time to go enjoy the beach.

Love all of you lots, Dana The bus we went on this 10 hour trip. The tour guide could speak English, it was great.

The little down who had all these things for tourest.

A picutre of the rice fields we were going to visit.

More little twons and farms we drove past Every extra piece of ground is used for gardening.

Going higher into the mountains.

Getting ready to climb to the top.

At this point I decided to not climb to the top and dad went on with the new video camera.

You could ride up and down to the top of the hill for about 200 RBV - about $24.

There farm animals are at the bottom of the houses. Everything is build with lumber here.

I stayed with these ladies and bought a bag and then sewed it so it fit around my shoulders.

The only had two needles. One was really bad.

Going back down the mountain = we though this would be fun to build at the Homestead.