2017 June: A Girls weekend out to Luoyang, Henan Province, China

11 June 2017

Greetings all and happy Pre-summer greetings from China. Even though it's "pre-summer", here in Shenyang, things are already hot in the day.  Getting ready to go into the rainy season of July and August.  But, before we get there, I want to share a special trip that I took with our Chinese family here.  I say "I" because this was a "girls weekend" with Daisy and her mother.  The location we visited was chosen by me for several reasons.

First of all, I heard about Luoyang in my first Chinese language course by Pimsleur and it said that this city is famous for the Peonies (the national flower of China). I would have had to go in April to see the Peonies...but from what I understand the place is wall to wall people, so not so sad I missed that time in Luoyang... a picture and a couple of silk scarves will do just fine for a souvenir of the Peonies!

Secondly, last year when Rod got a book about the different areas of China, in this area it showed some examples of Tang dynasty pottery, specifically some beautifully crafted large (some would call fat!)  ladies.  If you have been following this blog for awhile, you know I personally went through a  physical transformation from large to not so large (See May 2013: What I lost in China).