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Part 4 Hangzhou
October 27
Awoke to a drizzly day but we have a long day on a bus ahead of us so we had a big breakfast and headed out.
First stop was in Suzhou 3 hours after we started. We stopped at the
Soul's Retreat Temple, that has a leaning pagoda, for a short visit and more photographs.
We then had lunch at a Helton Hotel with real 'western' food and then onto
another 4 hours of a bus until we got to Hangzhou. The drive was nice and scenic but 7 hours is long. I think every one of the families collapsed when we got to our rooms. We stayed at the Wanghu Hotel for 2 nights.
October 28
We took another 20-minute bus ride to "Cave of the Dragon". This is a hillside with many
Budda’s of all different sizes that have been carved into it over the past 1500-2000 years. I kept looking at the lack of garbage and graffiti. The people of China are very proud of their country and historical landmarks!
The next stop was at another Buddhist temple. The Buda statue here was all in gold and was about 50 feet tall. Even though I am not Buddhist, I felt that this was a wonderful place of worship. Peaceful, quiet, and not a lot of people. There was a building on the grounds that held 1000 Buda’s. I would love to have taken some photos inside only for my memories but no pictures were allowed so I honored it. The temple is an active worship location and many Faithful were practicing their religion, so photographs were forbidden.
That afternoon, one parent from each family met for about 3 hours to complete the paperwork. Once again, all had to be correct and complete. Afterwards, Diane had bought a birthday cake for Lily since this was her birthday so we had a party for all the babies. I believe this was the first taste of Chocolate and I know since they will be women that it won't be their last. We then had the first children's group photo session. They are from left to right - Mary, Juliana, Lily, Yousha,
Zoe, and Jasmine.
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