Lunch at Peter's

Wednesday March 25th

After breakfast and after a few minutes of down time in our room we walked around town a little while and then we went to Peter's Coffee house. Peter's is owned by a family from Canada. We met another American couple living in DanDong at Peter's for lunch. It was a really good meeting. We were able to talk to them about how they do their work here and about their living experiences in DanDong. They have been here for 3 years, and have two young children. They are the same age as us as well! We were able to get some practical information concerning cost of living as well. I wish we had gotten a picture of Peter's but I didn't :(

We then went to the War Museum to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea - it was a different perspective on history!

View of the 100 steps up to the museum - we saw three teenage boys race up the steps - it was pretty funny!


John was not able to get a clear picture of this, but it was a model of Chinese soldies taking over an American bunker - The whole view on history was very different


Here is John and I in front of a statue, this hall descibed the Chinese view of the Korean war - it was pretty interesting.

After visiting the muesum we went to the school and met with the principals again, it was a very good meeting. It was awesome to see the kids in the school yard when we came up - they were all doing exercises - they were all so cute! When the bus pulled in there was a small group of girls who watched the bus come in and when they saw us they squeeled and pointed at the bus, it was pretty cute! We made a really positive connection with the school and the principal.

We took a picture together - the one where we are all smiling is really blurry - I need to see if I can photoshop the blurry one when I get home!

By the time we were leaving most of the kids had gone inside, but here are some of the kids playing in the yard


After leaving the school the principal took us sightseeing again, he took us to a park with a couple of really tall pagota's with an awesome views of the city


This was the arch entrance to the park we went to



Here is one of the pagotas we were able to walk up - John took the picture in two parts


This pagota was dedicated to the minority groups in China, there are 56 I think. Each level had pictures of something, places or people groups - this one shows a picture of one of the minority groups, but we could not figure out which one it was.

Here is the view from the top - It was a hazy day - but the view was amazing! This is only one side, it kinda shows you how big the city is - and it is concidered a small city here!



This was another pagota we walked up to - it was closed so we could not walk to the top - I have to be honest and say I was kinda gald - it was beauitful, but by this point we had climed a LOT of steps!!!

Here is another view of the city

Here are a couple random pictures taken from our walking around


How would you like to carry your groceries home this way
Here is a Chinese police car in DanDong

This was in our hotel - it is a touch screen monitor - Would you like touch me??? LOL!!