Wedding Dress

I got my wedding dress today. I still can't believe that I have a wedding dress hanging up in the cupboard with 2 bridesmaid dresses. I am only waiting on the veil now.

Blogger Blocked Again

Hi everyone,

Please bare with us while blogger is blocked in China again.
Someone has obviously said something that has upset the communists!

Kelly

Almost everything crossed off the list

Today has been very productive. I have managed to fit in a trip to the framer, the silk shop to get a silk cashmere blanket, the dentist for visit number 13, and out to Dulwich for their international day. I bought two silk covered boxes out there. One we got as a keep-sake box of our time in China and we have put in it a few things to remind us of China and our trips while living here and the other is a silk box with a silk covered photo book with black pages. We will use it for the guest book/photos on our wedding day.

The last few weeks have been flat strap. I have had to write detailed lists on my calendar/diary to ensure that I had everything bought, collected or orgainsed by the time our shipment was to be sent. Well, our shipment day is only two weeks away now, on the 31st of May, although because it appears that it will not need as long in transit this time, we may have to push it back to the 6th of June. We need to be in the country before it arrives as it will only take 4-5 weeks this time. We have had our assessment and it looks at though we will be shipping around 9.5 cubic meters of 'stuff'. We have got some pretty good 'stuff' though... Wedding clothes, furniture, bikes, etc, etc.

I pick up my wedding dress tomorrow, Kane's suits will be here by next weekend it is anticipated, the furniture should be delivered this week and I pick up the final framed photographs next weekend as well as another cashmere blanket. I am going to see a tailor this Wednesday about getting a pair of pants copied as I love wearing them, I may get a few extra chopsticks from Carrafour before we go as we also like the Japanese style wooden chipsticks they sell.

All of this to think about and it is my 'Hen's Night' next Saturday 23rd. All I know is that someone will knock on my door at 6.30pm and take me somewhere... where... I don't not know, and that I will be out all night!!!! They're so sneaky, my girls here ;)

After that I have 4 weeks to go out to the pearl market to get my wedding jewellery made. Easy when considering how busy I have been in the last 6 weeks.

Take care,
Kelly

Update

Hi everyone,

I have a mid-week update for you all.

Our flights coming home have been confirmed!!!!

We will fly into Albury Airport at 1.20pm on Sunday the 5th of July.

One day before Kane's birthday.

Bye KK

xxx

Ping'an

On the 5th day on our holiday we took 4 buses to get to Ping'an. A small village of minority folk high up (800-900m) in a mountain village. The village is famous for rice terraces. It was truly amazing! Here are some pictures...

The rice terraces a 7 moons Lookout

A gully with villages houses in the background

9 Dragons lookout

Me with the minority folk and their record breaking long hair, this photos cost us 20RMB!!!!!

The village of Ping'an

Exploring the village

Exploring the village

On the final day we walked around a bit more, and then caught another 2 buses, 3 hours later we were back into Guilin only to take a taxi out towards where we came from... the airport. We got back to Suzhou at 2am, 11 hours after leaving Ping'an, God a hate the travel part, I love the being in a place part but, bring on teleportation I say :)

Yangshou

Yangshou is just gorgeous. I found it so different to Suzhou. For one, Yangshou has only 300,000 people living in it compared to Suzhou which has over 6 million. The sky was clearer, though never clear. The people were so lovely and helpful as well. We stayed 4 nights in a small village called Moon Village about 8 km's out of Yangshou town. It was just gorgeous. We stayed in a Chinese style 4 story house run by a lady named Wei Wei. She spoke excellent English, she was once a tour guide and so could tell us the best things to do and the average price, I still beat her price every time though!!!!We explored the city, rode a mountain bike through some old villages for 36kms and then took a 3.5 hour boat ride down the Yulong River on a bamboo raft push by a man and stick :) We hiked up moon hill and then went right to the top, a little scary if you ask me and Kane. Here are some pictures...

A gate house next to the Li River

Me standing by the Li River in Yangshou town

Kane with our hired mountain bikes during a ride along the Yulong River.

Kane on the raft on the Yulong River

Kane and I at the top of Moon Hill

A view from the top of Moon Hill looking into Moon Hill village

Holidays!

Hi everyone,

We hope you all have a great week. We are off to Guilin/Yangshou tomorrow. We will be away from a computer for a while, so take care, and we'll fill you in on our trip next weekend.

KK
xxx