Xiangji Temple

Finally, I am going to post pictures.  Doing a blog is so new to me, I am still figuring out how to work it.  It takes me forever to get motivated.  I have tired to figure out how to post video's but no luck there.  I wish I could use You Tube, it would make things so much easier.  I found a couple of sites but they only allowed me to upload two video's, which seemed like a waste.  So no video's.  The internet here, at their apartment, isn't always very reliable.

Two weeks ago on Thursday the weather was really nice.  The prefect day for a bike ride.  Katie, the girls, and I went to see a Chinese Temple.  The temple was really neat.  We were only allowed to take pictures outside.  I wish I could take pictures inside, they had really cool giant statues of buddhas and cannons.  Some were craved out of wood, but the largest and most fearsome character was golden. They had to have been 12 to 20 feet tall.

Here are some pictures of the ride over and around the temple.

I love the look on Sariah's face.

We found out later that building is a restaurant boat.

The Xiangji Temple.

This is the courtyard of the temple.  It had about eight different building and each has a giant statue in it.

Showing that the doors are taller and me.  Unlike in Japan.

Since I wasn't allowed to take pictures inside I thought the best I can do is take a picture of a picture.  This is one of the statues we saw.  It's gorgeous and the colors of this particular one are so bright. The tiled background was especially impressive.  It is incredible.