Monday, March 31, 2008

From Behind the Bamboo Curtain

We've never been able to open our blog inside China's borders before. But today, in this internet gaming cafe above a train station, it miraculously opened. So, a quick note.

Mike's mom, Judi Breen, joined us in Hong Kong a week ago. Since then we've been over to the Guilin area, a beautiful place full of winding rivers and those crazy boulder-like mountains you see in Chinese scroll paintings. We just spent a couple days in Suzhou and Hangzhou, charming old imperial cities where we watched some Chinese opera, bicycled lazily around a misty lake ringed with pagodas, and stuffed ourselves with dumplings.

Today we're headed to Shanghai briefly, before catching an overnight train to Beijing. Susannah was there twelve years ago and is eager to revisit her old haunts and see how the city has changed.

We're not sure how much longer we'll be in China, or whether we'll be able to post again from within the borders. Stay tuned!

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