The Lemmertorium

So we were wondering if the Great Wall really is all that great….It is. We all (Cory, Jessica, and I) decided that it’s pretty darn cool. Nixon even said, “It sure is a great wall.” He must have been left almost speechless if he couldn’t think of anything else to say. The Great Wall was built to defend China from raiding Mongolians. Apparently, this did not work, as the sentries could be bribed. However it worked great as a road to get across the mountains. While visiting the Great Wall we made many jokes about avoiding the invading mongolians and also about becoming real men. Mao Tse Dong once said, “You are not a man until you have climbed the Great Wall.” The thousands of steep steps upward into the mountains are pretty grueling. We went as far as we could go on one side until the wall turned into rubble. Jessica, Cory, and I have become real men. To see photos of this adventure, Click here

OK, not really, but they did go to a wedding photo shop together and had pictures taken in Qi Paos. The Qi Pao is the traditional Chinese wedding/formal gown, and the ladies look lovely in theirs.

While viewing the pictures in the gallery you might want to entertain yourselves by answering the following questions:

1. How many umbrellas can you count?
2. Are those firecrackers real?
3. What is that stringed thingy?
4. Who’s wearing the fake hair?
5. And, just how much make up did they have to put on?

Oh, and at the end of this gallery is a pic of Lacey with her very own custom Qi Pao. It was made from SuZhou silk (which is quite famous over here) by a local tailor here in Pingdu.

The gallery is here.