A day out!

Mission: Leave home at 7:30 in the a.m. and arrive at an antique warehouse outside of Beijing 2 1/2 hours later. Sounds simple but fog, traffic, the call of nature, road blocks and a mean guard dog all made it just another adventure in China. We could not drive on the freeway because of the fog so we detoured though the countryside. About 2 hours into the trip one of our party decided that they needed to stop. The driver turned down a long driveway a few minutes later and we soon realized he had stopped in a Chinese graveyard. He assured us there would be bathrooms and so we got out of the car and sure enough there was. We were an attraction to the living that worked there. The dead could have cared less. Five hours after we had left the house we arrived at our destination. It was worth it!!!!

They burn incense in this building and the family and friends of the deceased gather in front of the picture depicting the year on the lunar calender the he/she was born and honor them.

We barely made it through! we would have gotten out and pushed if we had to! Nothing would stop us!

The lean mean guard dog!