Ken and Jeanie Schneider's China Blog: September Visitors

Jeanie and brother, Andy
Zhujiajiao Canal Town

We are blessed to have so many of you come and visit us this year in China. We started the first three weeks of September with visitors.

Ken and Andy in scholar's room

First, Jeanie's brother Andy was able to stop by Shanghai on the way back from a ministry conference in the Philippines. He even got to speak at the Living Waters group that is starting at our Shanghai Christian Fellowship. He also spoke at our church's Sunday night lecture series. We had so much fun bike riding around Shanghai and exploring the city together.

Bamboo

Zigzag bridge in garden

We took a short trip to one of the many canal towns just outside of Shanghai. Zhujiajiao is a charming village of Ming and Qing dynasty alleys, bridges, and old town architecture.

Church nuns and Andy

Zhujiajiao
Catholic Church of Ascension

Sunset on Zhujiajiao Canal Town

After Andy's visit, our friend Joan, from Portland, Oregon came to visit for two weeks. We had a great weekend in Beijing. We first went to the Summer Palace, the imperial summer retreat, just north of the Forbidden City. The palace grounds, temples, gardens, lakes and bridges are an amazing site.

Jeanie and Joan at Summer Palace,
Beijing

Ken at the Summer Palace

We walk the Long Corridor, more
than 14,000 paintings displayed

Joan at the Big Red Door, Beijing

17 Arch Bridge on Kunming Lake, Summer Palace

Joan at one of the Wall's many towers

Great hike on Great Wall

We had the opportunity to hike the Great Wall one more time. This trip, we hiked the Mutianyu starting point, about 1.5 hours north of Beijing. We took a chair lift up, hiked for 2-3 hours, then came down on the toboggan!