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2010 07 05 China
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Our Wedding

We would like to celebrate our marriage with family and friends on October 10 at the Hickory Shelter in Brookside Park, Ames Iowa. We will be in the park all day after a private wedding ceremony. We will have refreshments and good times to share. Please stop by if you can, and stay for as [...]

2010 07 03 China Comments (0)

The Rest of the Trip

So we didn’t update the blog since Shenzhen. Sorry. Long story short: from Shenzhen we went to Guilin then Kunming then Chengdu (yes, we went to see the pandas) 19 days. 9 cities. Planes, trains, and automobiles. A long haul, but much fun was had by all.

2009 02 19 China
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The South

We took an overnight train from Hangzhou to Shenzhen, arriving on the 30th. Shenzhen is a unique town. Like Zhangjiagang, it was one of China’s Special Economic Zones, established in 1979. Since then it’s grown by leaps and bounds, becoming the single richest city (in terms of GDP per capita) in China. As such, it’s [...]

2009 02 01 China Comments (1)

In Hangzhou

A quick update: We spent a day in Zhangjiagang seeing old friends, then a few days in Shanghai. Chinese New Year in Shanghai is amazing, as always. I’ll upload video eventually. Now we’re walking around Hangzhou, a beautiful natural setting before we head off tomorrow for Shenzhen and Hong Kong. Internet access has been problematic; [...]

2009 01 28 China Comments (0)

Nanjing

We’re in Nanjing. Arrived this morning at 5:45 AM, bought tomorrow’s bus tickets to Zhangjiagang, and walked through the city. We saw Zhonghua Gate before heading through the Fuzimiao shopping district to our hotel. The hotel’s modest but modern, perfectly sufficient for our needs. We spent a couple hours at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial before [...]

2009 01 22 China Comments (0)