OUCH!!!!

I am taking it easy today, just laying around the hotel room after passing a kidney stone the size of a bowling ball early this morning.  It isn’t fun.  Not fun at all.

 

I really hate missing out on seeing the area.  I do have a REALLY nice view from the hotel room, but, whoop-ti-do!

Happy Mother's Day, Mom!

July 1974

You are a great mother and I love you!

Donkey Meat for Lunch

You read right... DONKEY MEAT! Kind of tastes like roast beef (when you get past the thought that you are eating DONKEY MEAT)

Brasilian BBQ part deux

From the smile on that face you can tell this stuff is goo-oood.

Well, which is it?

Is it here or 200 meters up the road?

Gondola Ride

Our last day in Yantai, we took a gondola ride to the top of Yantai Shan. The ride was absolulely wonderful and the vistas from the top were spectacular.

Rough seas

Yesterday in Penglai, there was gale force wind, which made for some pretty sea pictures. The one on the top is part of the Penglai Pavilion. It is NOT the great wall of China!

Lottie Moon Country

I took a day trip yesterday to Penglai to see the church that Lottie Moon started back at the turn of the last century. I found THIS website to tell about who she was.

Yantai Lighthouse

Yantai

Doesn't it look like Europe?

Still having problems

Well, I can't seem to upload photos to BoyneBlog this morning, so I guess I am out of luck. I was able to upload one to my Wunderphoto site. Here it is

Technical Difficulties

Technical difficulties are making it completely impossible for me to post pictures on my blog today.  I tried to post one earlier, but at this point, I can’t even access my blog to see if it posted.  I can only send in text posts via email.

 

I had a really good day today.  We traveled by bus for about three hours to Yantai.  It is a great little town (of about 1.5 million people) right on the coast.  We are staying in a very nice hotel and had an excellent dinner.  I took about 95 pictures of the city.  Hopefully, I will be able to post them tomorrow morning.

View of Yantai

Yantai is a beautiful city with a long history of foreign influence. It was the base of foreign consulates after the opium wars of the 1800's. The city has a gorgeous old town that looks like it stepped right out of Europe.

Eric Liddle's Memorial

Internet too slow

I have been trying for the past two hours to post some pictures from todays adventure, but with to no avail. I will try again in the morning.

However, I had a most delightful day. We went to Weifeng and saw the monument to Eric Liddle, from "Chariots of Fire" fame. He came back to China after the olympics and taught as a missionary. When the Japanese invaded China during WWII, he, and many many others were interned. He died while in the interment camp in Weifeng a few months before the prisoners were liberated by the Americans. There is a wonderful monument to him outside the prison (which used to be a school building and hospital).

Meanwhile, I did manage to get one picture posted on the Wunderground Photo site: http://www.wunderground.com/wximage/imagesearch.html?handle=Boyne&handlebox=1&submit=go

Perhaps that could work until the morning.