Happy Easter!

Throughout my travels to Buddhist and Taoist temples, I haven't seen too much reference to Easter, which is the opposite of what I'm used to... I think I started seeing Cadbury eggs starting in February! Luckily, the hotels cater to their Western visitors...

Thought I'd send out an Easter greeting and include a funny photo of one version of the Easter bunny, on display with some colored eggs on the buffet in the hotel's restaurant.

Hope you all enjoy whatever you're doing to celebrate!



Today we took a tour, I know, you're surprised... we watched the last few minutes of Butler's win over Mich State over breakfast & headed out to the Wild Goose Pagoda,

From Xian: Day 2 -- Wild Goose Pagoda

a Lacquer factory, had lunch, went to see the Terracotta Warriors,

From Xian: Day 2 -- Terracotta Warriors and City Wall

and finally the city will around Xian.

From Xian: Day 2 -- Terracotta Warriors and City Wall

I ended the day with about 340 photos, putting me farther and farther behind in captioning and posting them... but we saw some amazing things today.

We're headed out now for some dinner and are retiring early today... we need to be up at 5:30 and off to the airport for a 9AM flight to Bejing.