Dear Xanga!
HELLO!!! It has taken forever long but now I have INTERNET in my room! *YAY*!!! "Wo FEICHANG gaoxing!"  No more electronic problems...OK!!! I can FINALLY upload my pics. from my study tour But I'm not able to upload all of them so bare with me as I do some at a time, k? Enjoy!! 
On the train to Xi'an...we got sleepers! and I felt like we were going to run off the tracks 
Binmayong aka: "Terra-Cotta Soliders" in Xi'an
Xi'an City Wall...my camera captured us girls AFTER we landed, doesn't it look like we had so much fun jumping?
Look at all the steps I had to climb to get to the top of the wall? If my *thunder thighs* don't go away after spending all this time in China...I dunno WHAT WILL 
Eating "Huo Guo" aka: Hot Pot... you get individual pots filled with boiling water, and you put thinly sliced pieces of meat to cook into the "hot pot" and a whole bunch of other stuff... so *yummy in my tummy*
I went to this dept. store in Xi'an and there was this Buddha statue on the ground floor...
This is the dept. store with the Buddha...it was a gazillion stories high. I was like *WHOA*!! (HEHE)
The BEAUTIFUL, BREATHTAKING Li River in Guilin...
Random cows along the Li River 
Reg, this is what I was talking about...isn't it FASCINATING? How do they balance on that little bamboo raft?
Ancient Cave in Guilin...don't be deceived by the cool colors...they're neon lights 
On a ship in Hangzhou right before a major TYPHOON!!!!
Tea Farm in Hangzhou...this is where the BEST GREEN TEA comes from 
Demonstration of how to prepare tea leaves after they are dried, before they are packaged for drinking Green Tea in Chinese = "lu cha"
I'm tempted to sing "I'm a little tea pot..." but as yalls can see, it is NOT little!
Pagoda in Hangzhou...sorry guys for having the picture sideways...but it's good neck exercise for yalls
Statue in front of the pagoda...I'm imitating her~ can ya tell? HEHE
I climbed MANY, MANY flights of stairs to get to the top...
...but once I reached the TOP, the view was INCREDIBLE and SOOOO worth climbing 
Another view from the top...
I risked my LIFE by hanging myself out of a window to carve this onto one of the roof tiles of the pagoda...it says "2005, RJ+CC="ai" with a BIG HEART around it ("ai" = love for Chinese)  see babe...this is how much i LOVE u!!! 
I'm eating a leg-of-mutton...it's HUGE!!!! I had to bite it so hard to rip the meat off...oh I felt like such a carnivore *roar*
This is me pretending to kiss a chicken's head  ... it was still attached to the body when it came to the table, but we ripped it off
...and this would be the chicken's feet...claws still intact
Ok yalls...these represent about 1/5 of the pics. I took but I can't upload anymore til later so more to come... 'til next time...ZAIJIAN!! | 
