Happy to finally be at the hotel in Hong Kong after a long day of travel
Excitement is giving way to exhaustion
Just tired, waiting for the room key
Hong Kong Island at night
Hong Kong Island at day
Kathryn with HK$10, you can see through it
Kathryn and Mom at the Star Ferry
Me, Kathryn, and Natalie waiting for the Star Ferry
I'll settle for a picture with wax Jackie Chan
Fig tree on the peak
Kathryn and me at a waterfall on the peak
Mom has all of the umbrellas
Kathryn and Mom trying take a nap
Mom is ignoring me
Kathryn is not trying to sleep anymore
Jet lag finally caught up to them
Angela took us out for seafood in Hong Kong
Look at the menu for dinner
Oh, the carnage
On the way to Stanley Market, there are buildings with holes
Mom is hanging on in the upper deck of the bus coming back from Stanley Market on the winding cliff side road
I didn't know you could combine all of those places
The bigger restaurants have bigger crabs
The variety of seafood at one of the restaurants
Sea urchin
Does anyone actually eat the horse shoe crabs
Mom has a shrimp
Mantis shrimp, so weird looking, so delicious
Some of the fishermen's boats
The cuttlefish is kind of cuddly, or at least squishy
Food at Modern Toilet
My soup and bitter fruit drink
Mom having some of the chocolate ice cream
It's really chocolate ice cream
The new CCTV building, otherwise known as the big pair of shorts, in Beijing
Mom, Kathryn, and Aunt Nancy in the taxi on the way to Raffles
I really like how they chose to depict loitering
Tiananmen Gate at night
Morning in the park next to the Forbidden City
Tienanmen Square with a view of the People's Hall
Mom and Kathryn ready for our first tour
Me, Mom, and Kathryn in the Forbidden City
Kathryn at the Forbidden City
Outer Palace at the Forbidden City
Turtle for longevity
One of the thrown rooms for the emperor
Mom and Kathryn at the Forbidden City Inner Palace garden
Kathryn, Mom, and Me at the Summer Palace
Pagoda at the Summer Palace
The granite boat that floats
Mom and Kathryn posing on the dragon boat in the Summer Palace
Mom is standing straight up on the Great Wall
The Great Wall just keeps on going
Mom taking a break walking up the Great Wall
Natalie taking a break
The Great Wall is really long
More of the Great Wall
Uncle Doug (photographer) and I made it to the end, or at least as far as we could go
Exterior of the Bird's Nest
Me, Mom, and Kathryn at the Bird's Nest
The scorpions are still alive and moving
Night Market food on a stick options
Bell Tower in Beijing
Aunt Nancy and Me on our rickshaw
Terra Cotta Warriors in pit 1
More warriors
Me, Mom, and Kathryn in front of the "Soldier Hospital"
Kneeling archer
Warrior with a horse
These were built for the Olympic opening games, not discovered in the tomb
Bronze chariot
Kathryn and Mom at Xian with someone else in the background
Take 2
Getting on the cruise ship
The "crocodile" that scared the guy that discovered the cave
One of the stone formations
Mom and Kathryn walking through Snow Jade Cave
Me at the Snow Jade Cave
Ah! So biiig!
Shibaozhai has the funnest suspension bridge ever
Wooden pagoda at Shibaozhai
Natalie and Uncle Doug at Shiboazhai waiting for the tour to catch up
Me Mom and Kathryn in the pagoda at Shibaozhai
Me, mom, and Kathryn in the top of the pagoda
Kathryn with the infamous bridge in the background
Our first gorge, Qutang Gorge
Mom enjoying the Three Gorges
Waterfall in the Lesser Three Gorges
Ba hanging coffin in the Lesser Three Gorges
Lesser Three Gorges
Leaving the Lesser Three Gorges
Me making my mom face
In Wu Gorge
Entering the lock at Three Gorges Dam
Mom and Kathryn waiting for the lock at Three Gorges Dam
View of the locks of the Three Gorges Dam
Sculpture at the Three Gorges Dam
Kathryn and Mom in the park at Three Gorges Dam
The Three Gorges Dam
Temple(?) after Xiling Gorge
Mom waiting for the lock at the lower dam
Mom is tired of waiting
Look closely, Mary and Jesus are Asian
Scale model of older version of Yueyang Tower
Yueyang tower replica
Kathryn has to investigate the stone rabbit
Me near the Yueyang Tower at Dongting Lake
Yueyang Tower
Silver needle tea at Yueyang Tower
Hungry carp at the park around Yueyang Tower
Kathryn's lost it again
Kathryn's mouth, saliva strands and all
Zumba
Chime bell performance at the Hubei Provincial Museum
Traditional Chinese instrument performance
Dancer during performance
Dancer still dancing
Crazy bronze wine holder
Crazy bronze wine container that's square
Crazy bronze chime bells
Crazy bronze drum stand base
Stone chimes made of limestone
Natalie waiting for us to meet her for dinner
Chipmunks for sale
An original kiln at Jingdezhen
Number 1 Mom at an original kiln at Jingdezhen
Cool porcelain vase
Bamboo and stone at Jingdezhen
Bonzai tree at Jingdezhen
Throwing bowls
Molding bowls
Glazing bowls
Painting bowls
A drying area and big kiln
A working in use kiln
Me next to a giant vase at the cheap porcelain market
Hey Macarena
Buddhist nunnery on the way up Mt. Jiu Hua
Entrance to temple with incense burner in foreground
Entering the temple
There are protective figures
They have weapons
They have scary faces
Tree at a Buddhist temple on Mt. Jiu Hua
Incense burners outside of a Buddhist temple on Mt. Jiu Hua
The most important part is to keep your politeness
Public sign at Mt. Jiu Hua
Decorative dragon railing
Kathryn making a prayer
A small shrine and some directions on the walk to the top of the mountain
The stairs up to the top of Mt. Jiu Hua
A small place for prayer on the way up
Almost to the top, just a few more steps
Another public sign
The reclining Buddha, the face even has eyelashes
Master of Nets Garden in Suzhou
Mom looking cool at the garden
Natalie highlights how the air conditioner helps the garden's feng shui
The part of the garden that I saw replicated at the Met in NYC
Aunt Nancy and Natalie sitting in the Master of Nets Garden
Red lanterns hanging in the garden
Aunt Nancy looks so small
Sorting cocoons at the silk factory, setting aside the double cocoons
Machine for boiling the cocoons
Worker stringing the silk strands together onto the machine to wind them
Automatic strand gathering machine
Automatic loom making a duvet cover
I found Chinese food in Shanghai, China
Mom is full after Uncle Mason and Aunt Audrey take us out to dinner in Shanghai
Times Square in Pudong, Shanghai
A view of the Bund at night, our hotel is in the center with the lotus shaped top
More of the Bund at night
McDonalds stand if anyone wants ice cream, Aunt Nancy and Natalie did
The buildings are giant big screen LCD displays
The Pearl TV tower, it has hotel suites in the spheres
Kathryn and Mom waiting in the lobby of Uncle Mason and Aunt Audrey's building
Natalie tries to bring Kathryn back from wherever she is right now
Mom doesn't want to have her picture taken anymore
I can't remember what Kathryn did/said, but the disgust is visible in Mom's eyes
Now Kathryn is trying to slurp Mom's arm, "slurp" is the right word
Mom has had enough, but Kathryn pursues
Street of Old Shanghai with our hotel in the background
Yu Garden in Shanghai
More of the Yu Garden
This part of the garden has water and fish
Kathryn in Yu Garden with a tree
Mom sticks her head out the window
Dragon wall
Trees with the wall that makes up the dragon's wavy body in the background
Natalie, Kathryn, and some other girl pet the carp
Natalie and Kathryn with Mom between them
A pavilion in the middle of the garden
Decorative rocks
I like circular doorways even if they have rectangular doors
The view of the fitness center from Uncle Mason's and Aunt Audrey's dinning room window
The view of the sandy outdoor area from Uncle Mason's and Aunt Audrey's dinning room window
On the Maglev train to Shanghai Pudong airport
It goes really fast, that's 187 mph
We passed a river and some buildings along the way
We're here, 30 km in less than 8 minutes
