Friday, October 31, 2008

Temple of Heaven, Summer Palace, Pandas at the zoo

We absolutely love China!!  The sights, the people, the energy, the history... everything.  
I can't connect my camera to the computer so these photos are all from David's iPhone (hence the slightly fuzzy quality).  
Two days until Kavanna Day!!
Walking towards the Temple of Heaven
David standing by a juniper tree that is over 300 years old.  In China, it's a mere youth of a tree.
Part of the Temple of Heaven
Ariel outside the boat we took to cross the lake at the Summer Palace.  The entire lake was manmade, and they used what they dug up to create a hill, where they placed another temple for the use of the Empress.

It's hard to capture the scope of the Summer Palace in  a photo.  It's huge and beautiful, and words don't do it justice.  Plus it's 3am in China and my brain is unable to come up with words more descriptive that "huge" and "beautiful".
At
 the Summer Palace

Pandas spend 10 hours per day eating.  They move very slowly.  And they're very CUTE!

3 comments:

DBW said...

Is that a Holga camera Ariel's got? Way cool. I hope you'll post some of those pics. Remember not to put the film in your checked luggage or the scanners will ruin it.

chad-roscoe said...

Oh, you still awake all night? You must be sooo full of anticipation! Almost to your baby now!
xx~
Di

Alyson and Ford said...

Thanks for the pictures!! Can't wait to see more!

Alyson
Alyzabeth's Mommy for Six Weeks!