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10 August 2017 - Today was the first day of our tour. After taking a train from Jinan to Beijing in the morning - in the afternoon we visited the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square. The first photo is the first / entrance gate to the Forbidden City. Quite a sight...

9 August 2017 - Today is the beginning of our extended tour of cities and sights in China. This is going to be absolutely amazing! Beijing (the Great Wall), then train to Xi'an (the Terracotta Warriors), then fly to Chengdu (the Giant Panda Reserve), then fly to...

8 August 2017 - This photo is of Xinzhu, the owner of the clothing store. The older woman is also a steady customer, like me! This woman was absolutely hilarious! And Miss Mary enjoying tea, cooling down from the 95 degrees outdoors and simply enjoying herself. It was...

8 August 2017 - And finally, yesterday, we visited a clothing boutique that I discovered when I first arrived in Jinan. The clothing, the I first saw it, said - 'this is stuff Mary would love!' I bought quite a few pieces for Mary, Oona and Kyla from this...

7 August 2017 - So, after this gargantuan meal we all need to take a walk in the night air. People everywhere - walking, dancing together, going into the mall for air conditioning. It was probably 86 degrees, dew point at probably around 75 degrees - hot and steamy at...

7 August 2017 - Another angle of our hot pot table. Mary taking a breather before the vegetable cooking part of the 'ceremony' / 'ritual'! Hot pot is sequenced in such a way: Cook and eat the meats, then cook and eat the vegetables, then cook and eat the noodles! It...

7 August 2017 - My very good and wonderful friend Hu Qing was asked to choose a special restaurant that Mary and I could treat her to. Hu Qing was one of my models in the very beginning of my teaching the spring term portraiture class. We became very good friends. We...

6 August 2017 - After a meal together at my favorite noodle shop, we took a walk to and on the campus of Shandong Normal University. This is where one of my former students, Su Jiani, graduated from before coming to Nazareth College. Currently, she is now in grad...

2017, August 5 - This is a diehard, investigative customer! Nothing will get in her way! Believe me! Stay Tuned.........Still More To Come..........

2017, August 5 - A picture of the inside area of the market. Some of this wild place in outside and some in indoors. here are also various niches and crannies filled with just about everything. Stay Tuned.........Still More To Come..........