Emily's Escapades

The Great Wall

by emily on August 6, 2010

We took the cable car up to the wall, walked for quite a while along the wall, then took toboggans down the mountain.  It took a few hours and we were all exhausted by the end.  All except the two-year-old, who had her own personal Sherpa to carry her the whole way.

Our whole group (photo set up by Jon.)

Tags: brendan & johnna, jon, mike & casey, mutianyu, paul & suzy, The Great Wall

Overnight Train to Beijing

by emily on August 4, 2010

On Friday we took the train to Beijing as the final part of Brendan’s birthday surprises.  He just thought it was a family trip – until there was a knock on his cabin door and Paul, Suzy, Mike, Casey, and Jon and I were there with a bottle of bubbles singing Happy Birthday! I think he would have fallen over if he hadn’t already been sitting down.

Mike and Jon got a hold of my camera and fisheye lens and took most of the photos in the gallery.  The tiny confine of the train compartment was a perfect place to use it.  More to come!

Tags: Beijing, brendan, friends, jon, mike & casey, paul & suzy, train

New iPhones!!!

by emily on April 20, 2010

This weekend Jon bought iPhones for both of us. Wow, talk about life-changing technology! The amount of apps available is amazing. I actually did this whole post from my phone and can access my full blog, including things like comment moderation from my phone. Awesome.

Tags: iPhone, jon

Jon’s Sidecar Trip

by emily on January 5, 2010

Here are a lot of Jon’s photos from the sidecar trip he took with Steve and Jon in November.  They had a lot of fun!!

Tags: jon, Jon S, sidecar motorcycle, steve

Chang Jiang 750 Sidecar Motorcycles

by emily on September 8, 2009

Jon and Steve ordered their sidecar motorcycles about 3 months ago.  I can’t say I’d recommend getting them at CJ Sidecars – it was supposed to take 40 days but took about an extra month.  There were several other foreigners who ordered bikes the same week who were leaving right after they were supposed to be finished.  I can only imagine what a mess that would be for them, trying to get them shipped home when you are already home!

Also, Steve’s was supposed to be dark gray with slightly darker gray flames, just a very slight color difference.  However, it arrived painted a light gray with black flames!  I was there when he picked the colors so I can definitely say those are not the colors he choose.  Luckily he isn’t very picky so he just went with it.

They’ve also spent many hours there having them fix various things.  Both of them know way more about motorcycles than anyone at the shop that I’ve met.  These bikes were used by the Russians in WWII and then copied by the Chinese sometime in the fifties.  Steve pointed out that their bikes could have been manufactured 15 years apart – they are original bikes but refurbed.  (I’m not a gearhead, so please forgive any inaccuracies about mechanical things.  Here is a bit more history.)

It was about 6:30  PM when I started shooting, so was using an 6400 ISO and 2.8/F.

Tags: jon, sidecar motorcycle, steve

Driving

by emily on June 1, 2009

Tags: jon, sidecar motorcycle

Birthdays

by emily on March 17, 2009

Tags: birthday, Daktronics, home, jon