Wait, why am I posting pics in Qu Fu? My xanga entry is waaay behind. Anyway, Qu Fu is the home of my ancestors.

Look, it's a thing and nasty water

Here's some more gold writing

There was gold writing on the wall

Here we are in the Qu Fu hotel.

There were some decrepit buildings

On the way out...

Dexter and Brandon

Mom 'n dad. Mom didn't want this one printed for some reason.

This is a moth I found on the way out. I guess the flash scared it, because it flew away.

Here's us in the railcar

The skies really cleared up on the way out

Red Team...Has the Flag!

Rock outcropping.

The one picture where my sister's hair is not in her face is also the picture where she's closing her eyes. Well, no one could tell if I hadn't said anything. Guess it's a good picture.

What's that in the distance?

Landscape

I don't know what this is.

Sometimes it would clear up

The three musketeers, sans hats

Here's another mysterious path...

This was an urn for offerings

This was near the top

Another awesome trash receptacle.

Some Chinese guy

There is the fog here...and that frog is a phone.

It's a lantern...

There's a path...

Awesome trash receptacle house things

Here's my bro in front of a gate

They did stuff. I was mystified.

Here's my aunt, the oldest among my dad's generation.

There was writing on the rocks.

Here's our guides. On the left is Michael, who is very unhappy because he's afraid of heights. On the right is Ford, who wore a Ford Mustang shirt so you could remember his name.

Is this place abandoned?

There's a mysterious city waiting at the top...

This was on the way to the railcars to take us to the top of Mt. Tai. The other way up Tai Shan was the 7000 stairs that the emperor used to take to pray at the top. I'm doing it when I come back.

The mist was beautiful...just...tell me it's pollution and I'll kick your ass. I'll do it.

Woot! This is what I was looking for!

Welcome to the no-spelling floor

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That's a trash can. FROM the left: Alyson, Dexter, me, Trash Can, Justin, Brittany.

Wow. This was off the freakin' charts on the cuteness scale. I mean, I'm a guy and I felt the need to gush at it. I'll see if I can get a video online...

Poor duck.

Here's the tiger with the second duck in its mouth. The duck's still alive.

Action pic! The tiger took a few swipes at the duck, and grabbed it up in its mouth neatly.

Then they drove armored Jeeps into the enclosure and threw some ducks out. This duck escaped - stayed in the deep water where the tigers didn't like it, then escaped in the underbrush. But where will he go inside the pen...? Sooner or later...sooner or later...

Tigers are huge animals. Having so many pacing back and forth (clearly unused to the small living quarters, unlike America's zoos) is kind of unnerving.

Well, most of the tigers were actually in those cages because they were "naughty".