The Lemmertorium

 Yes our parents and Cory’s brother who have never travelled out of the country have arrived safe and sound in Beijing! Besides wearing them out with all the walking, I think they are doing good and we are having fun teaching them about Chinese culture. This is a picture of us at the Forbidden City!  

There are three new galleries up. One is of our trip to Grape Mountain and Yantai. We went with YaNan and Kyle to eat and buy this area’s famous grapes. They were delicious. Then we decided to go on to a city on the coast, Yantai. Yantai is a port city with some European history. We didn’t find too much to do there but ate at Pizza Hut and went to Wal-Mart which felt a little like home. We also went to a Daoist temple to look around. click here to see The next gallery is of a day of playing in the park with two of our students that also go to our church and we hang around with sometimes. click here to see The newest one is of a day we spent visiting with some church people. We all went to a church lady’s date farm. It was a lot of fun. We picked dates, shoveled peanuts, and did some cricket chasing! There are no pictures of our cricket chasing but we have some videos that I think Cory will post later. Yes, we caught a lot of crickets and yes they were for the church people to take home and fry them up to eat! click here to see

Well, we’ve been to the big grape mountain, a city called Yantai, out to play on the net bridges at the park, and to a date farm where we chased crickets in the last few weeks. We of course have pictures from all these excursions and I’ve been waiting on Cory to post them, but I think I might have to take matters into my own hands! He’s been working with a new movie website he wants to start and hasn’t got around to posting them. So I guess I need to figure out how to save them to the flash drive and post them on the website so that you guys can get an update on what we’ve been doing. So hopefully within the next day or so there will be new galleries and posts. Thanks for your patience!

Jim and Melanie had Hannah Avada on Sunday, September 10 at 3:36 AM.  Congratulations!
Stats:
18 1/4 inches
6 lbs, 1 oz
+2 Ch/-2 Str

Ok, so this is a little late, the wedding was two or three months ago, but we would like to extend a heartfelt Congratulations to our friend Allison and her new husband. Our friend Emily just sent us some more pictures from the wedding that made us miss all you guys even more. So we thought we’d publish a little congratulations-sorry we couldn’t be there, hope everything is wonderful-on our website. We love you guys!

Pingdu has a very rich history, longer than that of Qingdao, Hong Kong, and many of the major cities in modern China.

Before the first Chinese emperor, in what was known as the “Warring States” period, Pingdu was a capitol of a Warlord’s Kingdom. This particular Warlord was fighting the kingdom of Modern Day Beijing. While the enemy army was camped, the Pingdu army fixed swords to the horns of several bulls, lit their tails on fire, and sent them into the enemies camp.

The bulls killed many soldiers, and sent the camp into a frenzy, allowing Pingdu to win the war.

The picture is from a large statue on the highway into Pingdu.