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Initial Pictures

Roe and I have made it back from China. Here are some of the initial pictures out of the 3375 pictures we took between the two of us. More to come...
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The Big Buddha is the original Buddha that founded Buddism, the bottom is the laughing or smiley Buddha that most of us Western identify with. This was in Urumqi where Mike was for work for 3 weeks.
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The Big Buddha is the original Buddha that founded Buddism, the bottom is the laughing or smiley Buddha that most of us Western identify with. This was in Urumqi where Mike was for work for 3 weeks.

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  • The Big Buddha is the original Buddha that founded Buddism, the bottom is the laughing or smiley Buddha that most of us Western identify with. This was in Urumqi where Mike was for work for 3 weeks.
  • Mike and his interperter, Miki, in Urmuqi
  • Picture from Mike's "hotel" room in Urumqi. This was an unusually clear day.
  • The last weekend Mike was in Urumqi he went on an outing with his interperter Rick. This where they ate lunch which was cooked in the house behind. It was very traditional Chinese outing he got to pariticpate in.
  • Squatting to play cards .... when I first saw this it seemed kind of strange ... then I got there and understood the squatting ... I won't go into it here.
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  • Basketball is big in China, many times when we said we were from New Jersey the response was .... " Oh, NBA team there".
  • Mike left Urumqi and met me in Beijing for 2 weeks vacation. This was our first day our sightseeing. This is Tian'anmen Square. It's the largest public square in the world. It really is big.
  • Mike and Roe at Tian'anmen square. Photo was taken by our tour guide Serena.
  • Enterance to the Forbidden City (which also is very large). It's called the Forbidden City because it was built for Emperors and the common people were forbidden to go in.
  • Forbidden City enterance
  • Roe and tour guide Serena. A lot of the woman used umbrellas to block the sun.
  • Mike, Roe and lots of people in the Forbidden City.
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  • View of Beijing from the top of the drum tower in Biejing. There were about 90 very steep steps to get up to the top. Little did we know that was the beginning of our step climbing on our vacation.
  • While on the rickshaw ride we visited a Chinese family in their home. She served us tea and home made snacks.There were 3 people living in this tiny 3 room house, we are all very luck here in the US.
  • The Great Wall of China.
  • Mike and I walked/climbed from where this picture was taked to the little black dot 3 qtrs of the way up. We didn't quite make it to the symbols on the side of the mountain.
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  • Walking some of many "stairs" on the great wall. You would think going up is the hardest but because of the unevenness of the stairs coming down was not easy either.
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