The reason we went to Zhengzhou was for Lydia and Tyler’s wedding.
This is the happy couple:
Prior to the wedding we sight saw. I forget the name of the park we went to, but it was about an hour outside of the city on a bend in the Yellow River.
Emily really loved the stepped pyramid in the middle of the giant park and afterward refused to use “baby steps” whenever possible.
The giant stone heads on the top of the hill were the intended attraction:
However, Emily and Lukas were the centre if attention everywhere we went. We didn’t see any westerners until our last night there and they were very surprised to see fellow English speakers.
Despite Lukas’ grimmace the wedding was enjoyable.
See:
It was out first touristy trip since Lukas was three months old and it has proved to us that we can start travelling again. We’ve been a bit gun shy about long bus, plane and train rides due to restless child syndrome, but it looks like we have headed back out into the light again.
On Tuesday we caught the train south to Zhengzhou (Jung Joe) to go to our friend’s wedding reception. The trip took five hours and when we arrived we quadrupled the amount of westerners in the city. In fact we didn’t even see any westerners at all until our last night when two incredulous Americans came up to ask why we were in Zhengzhou of all places.
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We caught a bus back to Beijing because it was impossible to get return train tickets and after eleven hours were safely home.
* Sight seeing and fun occurred here and needs documenting.
We signed M up to play football through Sports Beijing. She had her first training and game today, but unfortunately (for me) it seems that I’m in charge of our team.
I don’t do this very often but I want to say Emily is a very clever BIG girl! Yesterday we took her to the running track at Steve’s school and gave her a go riding her bike without the training wheels on – and she did it! She was pretty wobbly but the only time she fell off was when the bike was stationery and she had both feet on the ground! It’s quite terrifying for me but I’m so amazed and proud that she is riding her bike all by herself before she’s even 4!
I don’t do this very often but I want to say Emily is a very clever BIG girl! Yesterday we took her to the running track at Steve’s school and gave her a go riding her bike without the training wheels on – and she did it! She was pretty wobbly but the only time she fell off was when the bike was stationery and she had both feet on the ground! It’s quite terrifying for me but I’m so amazed and proud that she is riding her bike all by herself before she’s even 4!
